scholarly journals The Detroit–Windsor Border and COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Michael Darroch ◽  
Robert Nelson ◽  
Lee Rodney
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Essex County ◽  
Border City ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Containment Measures ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Laissez Faire

This brief essay chronicles the closure of the Detroit–Windsor tunnel during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Canadian government’s containment measures in the spring/ summer of 2020 from the authors’ perspectives as both residents and researchers living in the border city of Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Drawing upon crossings in March and June 2020 as well as reflections on the urban cross-border context that Windsor and Detroit facilitate, the article details the changes in border operations and the resulting difficulties faced by local communities. In conclusion we point to the current, local quagmire that Windsor–Essex finds itself in, having some of the highest case COVID-19 counts in Canada as of July 2020. Caught between a laissez-faire approach to managing the migrant worker outbreaks in Essex County, and slow-moving county/provincial and federal responses to the pandemic, local attitudes toward reopening the border here seem more divided than in other parts of Canada. 

Unrest in the Magic Valley

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Broughton
Keyword(s):  
San Antonio ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Farm Workers ◽  
The West ◽  
United Farm Workers ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Border City ◽  
The North ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
The Voice

One Evening in May 1967, in the parched border city of Mission, Texas, Ed Krueger had worked into the early evening on a painting and was late to the demonstration at the railroad crossing. He arrived there at 8:45 p.m. with his wife, Tina; his 18-year-old son, David; and Doug Adair, a young journalist writing for the magazine El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker. Just a few union members and bystanders were at the crossing when they arrived. Krueger, 36, a lanky and clean-cut minister, had been working with Local 2 of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFW) and had expected to see thirty or forty striking farmworkers and activists protesting the “scab melons” passing by on the next train. But they weren’t there, and Krueger was worried. They parked 75 feet south of the railroad crossing, on the west side of Conway Street. Krueger and his wife grabbed some hamburgers and sodas and leaned on their bumper to eat with their son. Adair went to talk to a reporter on the north side of the crossing. Joining Krueger was Magdaleno Dimas, an itinerant 29-year-old farmworker. A Mexico-born U.S. citizen, Dimas had a dragon tattoo on his right arm, a rose on his left, and an edgy zeal for the strike. They were waiting for a freight train carrying tens of thousands of recently harvested cantaloupes and honeydews loaded into thirty or so refrigerated cars. The melons had just been cut at La Casita ranch in Rio Grande City, thirty miles west of Mission. After a switch down-valley in Harlingen, the ranch’s melons would head north to San Antonio. La Casita, owned by a California company, operated nearly year round and employed 300 to 500 laborers on 2,700 acres of melons, peppers, carrots, cabbage, celery, and lettuce. The southern boundary of its well-ordered fruit and vegetable fields was the snaking Rio Grande River. All that separated La Casita from Mexico was a short swim across the slow-moving, greenish river that irrigated its fields.

Considerations on the Effectiveness of Cross-Border Cooperation in Public Order and Civil Protection Services. The Case of the Romanian – Hungarian Border Area

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Badulescu ◽  
Alina Badulescu ◽  
Catalin-Adrian Bucur
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Civil Protection ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Cross-border cooperation is an important mean to facilitate good neighborhood relations between communities divided by political frontiers. The institutional cross-border cooperation in the field of public services creates various opportunities and advantages for local communities on both sides of the border, helps to protect the safety of people and properties, and acts as an innovative model in providing high quality public services. Within this context, our paper presents, starting from a theoretical approach, the results of a survey-based research conducted among representatives and experts involved in public order and civil protection institutions, across the Hungarian-Romanian border. The paper focuses on revealing aspects such as objectives and results, effects and limits, reciprocity and long-run sustainability of the cross-border cooperation actions. The paper also draws conclusions and provides further recommendations.

Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
State Control ◽  
Shadow Economies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flows have largely been outside state control, and are pushed to the realm of the shadow economy. The official initiative is a state-driven attempt to enhance the orderly flow of resources across countries along the Belt and Road, hence extending the reach of the states to the shadow economies. This volume offers a bottom-up view of the transborder informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt and Road cooperation. By undertaking a comparative study of country cases along the new silk roads, the book underlines the intended and unintended consequences of such competing routes of connectivity on the socio-economic conditions of local communities.

A Local Perspective to the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Concept

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Cedilnik ◽  
Rok Ramšak
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Security Of Supply ◽  
The Road ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Cross Border

This paper explains the concept the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) and discusses why it is important for the local authorities to be familiar with the concept. Based on the quantitative survey carried out in this research we found that the ownership of the AEO certificate accelerates the road-based flow of goods and that it also positively affects the operation of economic operators within the scope of international trade. We also established that the infrastructure at border crossings does not enable the complete utilisation of all benefits offered by the ownership of the AEO certificate. This research of the AEO customs control program finds that the positive effects of AEO are reflected in the local environment as well and that the maximisation of the effects of the AEO requires the participation of the local government (municipalities, other local communities). This is especially the case in the activities associated with the planning of cross border traffic infrastructure and in the provision of information on the significance of time and security of supply chain functions.

scholarly journals Reaching across the Mekong: Local Socioeconomic and Gender Effects of Lao-Thai Crossborder Linkages

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Edgardo Gomez ◽  
Nittana Southiseng ◽  
John Walsh ◽  
Samuel Sapuay
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Physical Setting ◽  
And Gender

Following trade agreements between ASEAN states, the expansion of cross-border roads and bridges between Laos and Thailand has linked local communities and distant markets in increasingly diverse ways. Although the planned impacts of such integration are expected to be beneficial, effects on the ground vary, as witnessed at a sleepy outpost in Xayabury and a more vibrant crossing in Savannakhet. This paper discusses first the physical setting of such border facilities, and then explores their actual local effects on traders’ activities, highlighting changes in gender roles and perceptions of entrepreneurial competition participated in by women in the two research sites.

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