The 'Canada Brand': Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

Imai, Shoichi; Gardner, Leah; Weinberger, Sarah

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2886584

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“…Of course, quantitative studies can also suffer from selection and subjective bias, and such an approach is typically found in descriptive statistics that count-up the number of conflicts or allegations of human rights abuses, without consideration of no-conflict cases [12,13]. If the sample is constituted by conflict cases, the researcher cannot determine the causes of conflict statistically, and must instead focus on some variation within the sample such as activist strategies or outcomes of activism [14].…”

Section: Methods In the Study Of Social Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Haslam

2020

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New data sources that I characterize as “bigger data” can offer insight into the causes and consequences of socio-environmental conflicts, especially in the mining and extractive sectors, improving the accuracy and generalizability of findings. This article considers several contemporary methods for generating, compiling, and structuring data including geographic information system (GIS) data, and protest event analysis (PEA). Methodologies based on the use of bigger data and quantitative methods can complement, challenge, and even substitute for findings from the qualitative literature. A review of the literature shows that a particularly promising approach is to combine multiple sources of data to analyze complex problems. Moreover, such approaches permit the researcher to conduct methodologically rigorous desk-based research that is suited to areas with difficult field conditions or restricted access, and is especially relevant in a pandemic and post-pandemic context in which the ability to conduct field research is constrained.

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Section: Methods In the Study Of Social Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Haslam

2020

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“…A study by the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) has found many instances of violence involving Canadian mining companies in Latin America [30] (p. 4) (it should be noted that the author of the report, Professor Imai, has also argued in a legal proceeding on behalf of some of the people affected by the mining company Blackfire [31]). These incidents involve 28 Canadian companies, 44 deaths, 403 injuries and "a widespread geographical distribution of documented violence" [30] (p. 4). The study is careful in not establishing a causal link between Canadian mining companies and the specific acts of violence.…”

Section: Human Rights Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study is careful in not establishing a causal link between Canadian mining companies and the specific acts of violence. However, the author argues that there is enough proximity between Canadian investments and violence that demands action at both the international and domestic levels [30] (p. 28).…”

Section: Human Rights Risksmentioning

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Extractive Industries and Investor–State Arbitration: Enforcing Home Standards Abroad

Barrera

2019

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Extractive industries can bring much-needed jobs to remote locations in developing countries. At the same time, there are too many examples where extractive projects bring environmental degradation and human rights violations. Some research has pointed out that the difference between an extractive project that brings positive spillovers for communities and one that destroys communities and poisons the environment is a strong rule of law. However, developing countries often lack strong legal institutions and have high levels of corruption. Furthermore, remote locations are usually the last safe haven for vulnerable populations stricken by poverty. This essay argues that, given these circumstances, home states have a responsibility to do more to control their outward investors, particularly regarding extractive industries. The essay concentrates mostly on Canadian mining companies given the plurality of conflicts involving them and a developing country. The essay will also analyze current efforts at the home state level to rein-in the conduct of extractive industries abroad and advise where they may fall short.

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“…Analysts have pinpointed several key sources of regulatory “weakness.” Canadian stock markets are the source of financing for a significant proportion of global mining firms, especially small exploration or junior companies (Heidrich and Ortiz Loaiza, 2016). It is widely thought the Canadian exchanges have less demanding disclosure requirements and weaker enforcement of the rules that exist, particularly in comparison to the United States under the Dodd-Frank Act (Deneault and Sacher, 2012: 32; Imai, 2017: 40) 2 . In particular, Canadian exchanges have not required disclosure of social, environmental or human rights issues associated with an investment.…”

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Do Canadian Mining Firms Behave Worse Than Other Companies? Quantitative Evidence from Latin America

2018

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The effects of Canadian mining companies on local communities abroad is an increasingly contentious topic as activists and academics, citing case studies, have drawn attention to alleged problems. Despite the policy relevance of this issue, there have been no generalizable analyses of whether mining companies headquartered in Canada behave differently from mining firms headquartered in other countries. This paper conducts the first rigorous statistical analysis of the effect of country of origin, or more specifically, “being Canadian,” on the occurrence of known social conflicts in Latin America. We use an original database of 634 mining properties in five Latin American countries, which allows us to differentiate between a country-of-origin effect and other probable determinants of social conflict in communities near mining properties. We find that Canadian mining firms perform slightly better than other foreign firms, but worse than locally owned firms.

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The 'Canada Brand': Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

Cited by 29 publications

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Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Extractive Industries and Investor–State Arbitration: Enforcing Home Standards Abroad

Do Canadian Mining Firms Behave Worse Than Other Companies? Quantitative Evidence from Latin America

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