Transnational Entrepreneurs and Drug War Violence Between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso

Morales, María Cristina; Flores, Pamela; Bejarano, Cynthia

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“…For example, since the start of Mexico's war on drugs in 2006, some business owners in Ciudad Juarez have opted for the "exit" option -closing their shops and migrating to the United Statesin the face of violent criminal protection rackets. Other business owners in the same city have chosen to exercise "voice" by working with government authorities to weaken the rackets in the micro-zones where their businesses are located (Morales, Prieto, and Bejarano 2014). Meanwhile businesses in parts of Eastern Europe seem to have favored "loyalty" to rackets that offered security and order.…”

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The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power

Moncada¹

2019

Perspect. polit.

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The conventional approach to criminal victimization views it as a traumatic but one-time act. This overlooks a layer of contentious and dynamic politics between victims and criminal actors that we have yet to analyze. I develop a new theoretical framework to analyze the strategic behaviors that victims and criminal actors use to pursue and resist power as part of the political process of criminal victimization. The framework enables us to better observe, conceptualize, and theorize how victims exercise agency vis-à-vis their criminal perpetrators, as well as behaviors and practices that criminal actors undertake to carry out and sustain victimization, but which are overlooked by the traditional focus on their use and threat of coercive force. I illustrate the framework’s analytic utility with an empirical analysis of the victimization of informal street vendors in a major Latin American city under a criminal protection racket. The argument and empirical findings suggest ways to expand and deepen the research agenda on the politics of criminal victimization.

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The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power

Moncada¹

2019

Perspect. polit.

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“…One main stream of literature on SMEs and border regions is the (often ethnographic) case studies on entrepreneurial behaviour and activity with regard to rural livelihoods at border regions (Alff, 2016;Bolt, 2012;Fang, 2010;Lagerqvist, 2013;Natário, Braga, & Fernandes, 2015;Rungmanee, 2014) and cross-border entrepreneurship (Morales, Prieto, & Bejarano, 2014;Walther, 2012) -that is, 'entrepreneurial activity across international borders' (Smallbone & Welter, 2012, p. 95) -and their role in cross-border (economic) development and integration. Relatedly, there are a few studies discussing the importance of SMEs and entrepreneurship for (self-) employment and securing livelihoods at border regions (Brown, 2002;Giusti, 2006;Robles, 2007).…”

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“…In terms of the geographical coverage of the studies identified, most of them have been conducted in (relatively) advanced economies, i.e., they discuss either European (Çalışkan et al, 2006;Natário et al, 2015) or North American (Bradbury, 2010;Morales et al, 2014) border regions (Figure 3).…”

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Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

Makkonen

Leick

2019

European Planning Studies

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The present paper explores the unresolved issue in regional planning of whether smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from being located in border regions in terms of crossborder cooperation opportunities and cross-border externalities. By systematically reviewing the existing literature on the topic with the help of a mapping review, it suggests the following answer: SMEs in border regions do benefit from cross-border cooperation opportunities. However, there is no strong empirical support of a prevalence of positive cross-border externalities. Rather, the review finds that SMEs in border regions are influenced by negative cross-border externalities. Since the results do not point in a clear-cut direction, given their high degree of context-specificity, we claim that further studies on the topic are necessary to combine the established knowledge on SME-based entrepreneurship with planning theories and concepts taken from the literature on borders, border asymmetries and border regions.

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“…3 Other possible factors include a declining Mexican fertility rate, heightened enforcement of border security, and enhanced detentions and deportations of unauthorized migrants in the United States. The disparate impact of violence in Mexico may also play a role: Though the drug wars have displaced and encouraged the migration of upper-and middle-class professionals 4 and entrepreneurs, 5 violence along the border has intimidated migrants with more limited socioeconomic resources from clandestinely crossing into the United States.…”

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A Transformation in Mexican Migration to the United States

Sáenz

2015

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The volume of migration from Mexico to the United States fell from 1.9 million in 2003-2007 to 819,000 in 2008-2012, a drop of 57 percent. 6 The decline was widespread across states. The U.S. economic collapse during this period had a particularly dampening effect on construction and other industries that rely on a Mexican immigrant workforce. 7 Indeed, during this period of economic decline Mexican migrants were among the first to be fired or displaced. 8 Construction employment plunged 71 percent from the 2003-2007 cohort to the 2008-2012 group. Nearly one-fourth of Mexican migrants arriving in the 2003-2007 period were employed in construction, compared to only one-sixth in 2008-2012. This significant decline in construction activity certainly impacted the volume of Mexican migration across states.

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Transnational Entrepreneurs and Drug War Violence Between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso

Cited by 5 publications

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The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power

The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power

Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

A Transformation in Mexican Migration to the United States

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