Private Military and Security Labour Migration: The Case of Fiji

Kanemasu, Yoko; Molnár, Gyõzõ

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“…Congressional research service studies show that contractors working for American PMSCs are mostly non-Americans, especially in the service subsector (Schwartz, 2010, 2011). A glance of this subsector was presented in the studies of Chisholm (2014a, 2014b, 2015) on former Gurkha soldiers, Kanemasu and Molnar (2017) on Fijian labor in the industry, and Christensen’s study on former Sierra Leonean child soldiers contracting work in Iraq (2016). Those confirm the core-periphery thesis (King, 2006), especially the low-skilled workforce assumption.…”

Section: The Rise Of Pmscs In the Contemporary And Security Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

The Corporate War Dead: New Perspectives on the Demographics of American and British Contractors

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Feldscher

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Armed Forces & Society

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From an obscure sector synonymous with mercenaryism, the private military and security industry has grown to become a significant complementing instrument in military operations. This rise has brought with it a considerable attention. Researchers have examined the role of private military and security companies in international relations as well as the history of these companies, and, above all, the legal implications of their use in the place of military organizations. As research progresses, a significant gap has become clear. Only a handful of studies have addressed the complex of issues associated with contractors’ demographics and lived experience. This article sheds some light over this lacuna, examining contractors’ demographics using descriptive statistics from an original data set of American and British contractors who died in Iraq between the years 2003 and 2016. The article augments our understanding of an important population of post-Fordist-contracted workforce, those peripheral workers supplementing military activity in high-risk occupations with uncertain long-term outcomes.

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Section: The Rise Of Pmscs In the Contemporary And Security Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

The Corporate War Dead: New Perspectives on the Demographics of American and British Contractors

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Young

Feldscher

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“…These dynamics continue to this day, as i-Taukei enthusiastically join the national armed forces and many are seconded to United Nations peacekeeping forces or special units in the British military (Teaiwa 2005). Since the 1990s, indigenous Fijians have also maintained a visible presence in the global private security industry (Amar 2012: 42–44; Kanemasu and Molnar 2017).…”

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Rethinking Masculinity in the Neoliberal Order: Cameroonian Footballers, Fijian Rugby Players, and Senegalese Wrestlers

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In the Global South since the 1980s, when economic downturns under pressure from the forces of neoliberalism eroded social relations, sport and athletes’ bodies have become major loci where masculinity is constituted and debated. Sport masculinity now fills a vacuum left by the evacuation of traditional forms of masculinity, which are no longer available to the new generations of men. For them, the possibility of employment in the sport industries in the Global North has had a transformative effect, despite the extremely limited probability of success. During the same period of time, the world of sport has become commoditized, mediatized, and corporatized, transformations that have been spearheaded by the growing importance of privatized media interests. Professional athletes have become neoliberal subjects responsible for their own destiny in an increasingly demanding and unpredictable labor market. In Cameroon, Fiji, and Senegal, athletic hopefuls prospectively embody this new gendered subjectivity by mobilizing locally available instruments that most closely resemble neoliberal subjectivity, such as Pentecostalism and maraboutism. Through the conduit of sport, the masculine self has been transformed into a neoliberal subject in locations where this is least expected. What emerges is a new approach to masculinity that eschews explanations based on the simple recognition of diverse and hierarchically organized masculinities, and instead recognizes masculinity in its different manifestations as embedded, scalar, relational, and temporally situated.

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“…Congressional Research Service studies show that contractors working for American PMSCs are mostly non-Americans, especially in the service sub-sector (Schwartz 2010;Schwartz 2011). A glance of this sub-sector was presented in the studies of Chisholm (Chisholm 2015; Chisholm 2014a; Chisholm 2014b) on former Gurkha soldiers, Kanemasu and Molnar (2017) on Fijian labor in the industry, and…”

Section: The Rise Of Pmscs In the Contemporary And Security Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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<p>From an obscure sector synonymous with mercenaryism, the private military and security industry has grown to become a significant complementing instrument in military operations. This rise has brought with it considerable attention. Researchers have examined the role of private military and security companies in international relations as well as the history of these companies, and, above all, the legal implications of their use in place of military organizations. As research progresses, a significant gap has become clear. Only a handful of studies have addressed the complex of issues associated with contractors’ demographics and lived experience. This paper sheds some light over this lacuna, examining contractors’ demographics using descriptive statistics from an original dataset of American and British contractors who died in Iraq between the years 2003-2016. The paper augments our understanding of an important population of post-Fordist contracted workforce, those peripheral workers supplementing military activity in high-risk occupations with uncertain long-term outcomes. <b></b></p>

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Private Military and Security Labour Migration: The Case of Fiji

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

The Corporate War Dead: New Perspectives on the Demographics of American and British Contractors

The Corporate War Dead: New Perspectives on the Demographics of American and British Contractors

Rethinking Masculinity in the Neoliberal Order: Cameroonian Footballers, Fijian Rugby Players, and Senegalese Wrestlers

The Corporate War Dead Swed et al. 2018 Armed Forces & Society pdf

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