Terence M Garrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terence M Garrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terence M |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrett |
| SIGNATURE | GARRETT T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6889-7139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Overcoming Title 42 and the 2022‐3 Venezuelan Migrant Expulsion Spectacle
On October 12, 2022, the Biden administration abruptly changed course and announced that Venezuelan refugees would be immediately subject to Title 42—the policy that effectively means that those migrants would be summarily forced to return, or expelled, to Mexico. For FY 2022, Customs and Border Protection apprehended and/or expelled a total of 2,766,582 enforcement actions (CBP FY 2022). The resulting media spectacle illustrates another example …
Migration Policy in the Era of Trumpism and Media Spectacle
Donald Trump may be the Republican presidential nominee for the 2024 election and is facing multiple indictments for alleged crimes committed during his presidency. If convicted, this would make a Trump election victory unlikely, although he is the master of the media spectacle and populist authoritarianism – essential components of Trumpism. I focus on U.S. migration policy consequences affecting Mexico and other states in the Americas if Trump …
Revisiting the policy implications of Covid‐19, asylum seekers, and migrants on the Mexico–U.S. border
Covid ‐19, asylum seekers, and migrants on the Mexico–U.S. border
Border securocracy
The U.S. border security apparatus is moving around the globe as climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and corporatization create political and economic chaos. Global north governments seek to keep out migrants and refugees from the global south while corporations in the global north want protection to maintain their wealth. U.S. government bureaucratic agencies such as Custom and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit are sent abroad…
Covid-19, wall building, and the effects on Migrant Protection Protocols by the Trump administration
The COVID-19 pandemic has repercussions well beyond the confines of borders. National border policies can thwart international efforts to combat the spread of infectious diseases. These problems are especially relevant for the United States with the spectacle of President Trump’s “big, beautiful border wall” used as leverage to maintain political and economic power domestically and globally while confronting the coronavirus pandemic. The focus of…
The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra
Trump's Department of Homeland Security implemented the Zero Tolerance policy from April 6 to June 24, 2018. Refugees, prevented from crossing the midpoints of bridges by Customs and Border Protection agents, crossed the Rio Grande to ask for asylum, were denied, and forced to cross at places deemed illegal by law. This resulted in misdemeanor violations for unlawful entry and fleeing immigration checkpoints. The policy initiative centered on the…
Administrative Surveillance and Fear
Fear has struck the people along the U.S.-Mexico border. Government authorities of the two nations have implemented techniques to secure the Rio Grande against drug trafficking, immigration, and terrorism. This article explores the issues and policies that have led to the escalation of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘politics of fear’. Firstly, Mexican and U.S. governmental authorities are examined in the context of their actions agai…
The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the US–Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by “others” to be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and d…
Stories Managers Tell and the Knowledge Analytic
Ralph Hummel's body of work is substantial. Especially in the area of phenomenology, his special expertise, and his impact on public administration theory are unsurpassed. Hummel's advocacy of the practical application of theory based on the true meaning of experience, and on what we know and how we know phenomena, was central to his life's work. His seminal article "The Stories Managers Tell: Why They Are as Valid as Science" captures the essenc…
America’s Homo Sacer
Border politics became a high priority for the U.S. government following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and illegal immigration became the “problem” of the southern border dominating the news. The perceived loss of Americans’ safety, jobs, and health care was pinned to the “problem” of illegal immigration. The new border/security policies, with the onset of the War on Terror, further criminalized immigration law and heightened enforcement of ille…
The DHS Border Fence in the Rio Grande Valley
The authors call on related theoretical concepts to better understand the effects on the Rio Grande Valley of the U.S. government's recent border security activities. In particular, we explore the consequences of U.S. wall-building policies in terms of semiotics (Baudrillard's simulacra), space (Foucault's heterotopias), and subjectivity (Agamben's homo sacer). These three interrelated perspectives are developed as analytical tools to study impac…
Public Administration Theory in the Obama Era
The authors listed above and a few others met during the 2009 Public Administration Theory Network Conference, as part of the Open Space Technology process, to talk about what the new Obama administration might mean for public administration theory. Open Space Technology is a self-organizing process where participants set their own agenda to discuss complex topics of interest (see Stout & Bryer, 2009. This essay summarizes our conversation and pr…
The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration
(2010). The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Interorganizational Collaboration and the Transition to the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transition has shown problems between executive political leadership, management associations, and labor unions, despite “collaborative efforts,” resulting in bureaucratic inertia. This means slower incremental changes for proposed personnel reforms based on private business models advocated by presidential administrations in recent years. The author submits that collaborati©ve organizational reforms advo…
Whither Challenger, Wither Columbia
The Challenger and Columbia similarities in management decision making with regard to the ill-fated shuttle mission failures bear scrutiny. Key aspects of both tragedies include senior-level managers ignoring the advice from experts within the NASA organization leading to tragedy. NASA is typical of modern organizations in the tendency to relegate worker knowledge below that of managers and executives. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board ha…
The Waco, Texas, ATF Raid and Challenger Launch Decision
The author argues that the Challenger space shuttle launch disaster and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) raid on the Branch Davidian compound both offer insights for managers and organization theorists as to how managers make judgments concerning their employees based on conceptions of how the employees ought to do their work. Managers with a knowledge of “management as science” objectify the work of employees under them. Workers…
Administrative Surveillance and Fear
Fear has struck the people along the U.S.-Mexico border. Government authorities of the two nations have implemented techniques to secure the Rio Grande against drug trafficking, immigration, and terrorism. This article explores the issues and policies that have led to the escalation of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘politics of fear’. Firstly, Mexican and U.S. governmental authorities are examined in the context of their actions agai…
Whither Challenger, Wither Columbia
The Challenger and Columbia similarities in management decision making with regard to the ill-fated shuttle mission failures bear scrutiny. Key aspects of both tragedies include senior-level managers ignoring the advice from experts within the NASA organization leading to tragedy. NASA is typical of modern organizations in the tendency to relegate worker knowledge below that of managers and executives. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board ha…
The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the US–Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by “others” to be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and d…
The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra
Trump's Department of Homeland Security implemented the Zero Tolerance policy from April 6 to June 24, 2018. Refugees, prevented from crossing the midpoints of bridges by Customs and Border Protection agents, crossed the Rio Grande to ask for asylum, were denied, and forced to cross at places deemed illegal by law. This resulted in misdemeanor violations for unlawful entry and fleeing immigration checkpoints. The policy initiative centered on the…
The Waco, Texas, ATF Raid and Challenger Launch Decision
The author argues that the Challenger space shuttle launch disaster and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) raid on the Branch Davidian compound both offer insights for managers and organization theorists as to how managers make judgments concerning their employees based on conceptions of how the employees ought to do their work. Managers with a knowledge of “management as science” objectify the work of employees under them. Workers…
The DHS Border Fence in the Rio Grande Valley
The authors call on related theoretical concepts to better understand the effects on the Rio Grande Valley of the U.S. government's recent border security activities. In particular, we explore the consequences of U.S. wall-building policies in terms of semiotics (Baudrillard's simulacra), space (Foucault's heterotopias), and subjectivity (Agamben's homo sacer). These three interrelated perspectives are developed as analytical tools to study impac…
The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration
(2010). The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Border securocracy
The U.S. border security apparatus is moving around the globe as climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and corporatization create political and economic chaos. Global north governments seek to keep out migrants and refugees from the global south while corporations in the global north want protection to maintain their wealth. U.S. government bureaucratic agencies such as Custom and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit are sent abroad…
America’s Homo Sacer
Border politics became a high priority for the U.S. government following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and illegal immigration became the “problem” of the southern border dominating the news. The perceived loss of Americans’ safety, jobs, and health care was pinned to the “problem” of illegal immigration. The new border/security policies, with the onset of the War on Terror, further criminalized immigration law and heightened enforcement of ille…
Public Administration Theory in the Obama Era
The authors listed above and a few others met during the 2009 Public Administration Theory Network Conference, as part of the Open Space Technology process, to talk about what the new Obama administration might mean for public administration theory. Open Space Technology is a self-organizing process where participants set their own agenda to discuss complex topics of interest (see Stout & Bryer, 2009. This essay summarizes our conversation and pr…
Interorganizational Collaboration and the Transition to the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transition has shown problems between executive political leadership, management associations, and labor unions, despite “collaborative efforts,” resulting in bureaucratic inertia. This means slower incremental changes for proposed personnel reforms based on private business models advocated by presidential administrations in recent years. The author submits that collaborati©ve organizational reforms advo…
Stories Managers Tell and the Knowledge Analytic
Ralph Hummel's body of work is substantial. Especially in the area of phenomenology, his special expertise, and his impact on public administration theory are unsurpassed. Hummel's advocacy of the practical application of theory based on the true meaning of experience, and on what we know and how we know phenomena, was central to his life's work. His seminal article "The Stories Managers Tell: Why They Are as Valid as Science" captures the essenc…
The Waco, Texas, ATF Raid and Challenger Launch Decision
The author argues that the Challenger space shuttle launch disaster and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) raid on the Branch Davidian compound both offer insights for managers and organization theorists as to how managers make judgments concerning their employees based on conceptions of how the employees ought to do their work. Managers with a knowledge of “management as science” objectify the work of employees under them. Workers…
Whither Challenger, Wither Columbia
The Challenger and Columbia similarities in management decision making with regard to the ill-fated shuttle mission failures bear scrutiny. Key aspects of both tragedies include senior-level managers ignoring the advice from experts within the NASA organization leading to tragedy. NASA is typical of modern organizations in the tendency to relegate worker knowledge below that of managers and executives. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board ha…
Public Administration Theory in the Obama Era
The authors listed above and a few others met during the 2009 Public Administration Theory Network Conference, as part of the Open Space Technology process, to talk about what the new Obama administration might mean for public administration theory. Open Space Technology is a self-organizing process where participants set their own agenda to discuss complex topics of interest (see Stout & Bryer, 2009. This essay summarizes our conversation and pr…
The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration
(2010). The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Interorganizational Collaboration and the Transition to the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transition has shown problems between executive political leadership, management associations, and labor unions, despite “collaborative efforts,” resulting in bureaucratic inertia. This means slower incremental changes for proposed personnel reforms based on private business models advocated by presidential administrations in recent years. The author submits that collaborati©ve organizational reforms advo…
The DHS Border Fence in the Rio Grande Valley
The authors call on related theoretical concepts to better understand the effects on the Rio Grande Valley of the U.S. government's recent border security activities. In particular, we explore the consequences of U.S. wall-building policies in terms of semiotics (Baudrillard's simulacra), space (Foucault's heterotopias), and subjectivity (Agamben's homo sacer). These three interrelated perspectives are developed as analytical tools to study impac…
Stories Managers Tell and the Knowledge Analytic
Ralph Hummel's body of work is substantial. Especially in the area of phenomenology, his special expertise, and his impact on public administration theory are unsurpassed. Hummel's advocacy of the practical application of theory based on the true meaning of experience, and on what we know and how we know phenomena, was central to his life's work. His seminal article "The Stories Managers Tell: Why They Are as Valid as Science" captures the essenc…
America’s Homo Sacer
Border politics became a high priority for the U.S. government following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and illegal immigration became the “problem” of the southern border dominating the news. The perceived loss of Americans’ safety, jobs, and health care was pinned to the “problem” of illegal immigration. The new border/security policies, with the onset of the War on Terror, further criminalized immigration law and heightened enforcement of ille…
Administrative Surveillance and Fear
Fear has struck the people along the U.S.-Mexico border. Government authorities of the two nations have implemented techniques to secure the Rio Grande against drug trafficking, immigration, and terrorism. This article explores the issues and policies that have led to the escalation of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘politics of fear’. Firstly, Mexican and U.S. governmental authorities are examined in the context of their actions agai…
The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the US–Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by “others” to be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and d…
Covid-19, wall building, and the effects on Migrant Protection Protocols by the Trump administration
The COVID-19 pandemic has repercussions well beyond the confines of borders. National border policies can thwart international efforts to combat the spread of infectious diseases. These problems are especially relevant for the United States with the spectacle of President Trump’s “big, beautiful border wall” used as leverage to maintain political and economic power domestically and globally while confronting the coronavirus pandemic. The focus of…
The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra
Trump's Department of Homeland Security implemented the Zero Tolerance policy from April 6 to June 24, 2018. Refugees, prevented from crossing the midpoints of bridges by Customs and Border Protection agents, crossed the Rio Grande to ask for asylum, were denied, and forced to cross at places deemed illegal by law. This resulted in misdemeanor violations for unlawful entry and fleeing immigration checkpoints. The policy initiative centered on the…
Covid ‐19, asylum seekers, and migrants on the Mexico–U.S. border
Border securocracy
The U.S. border security apparatus is moving around the globe as climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and corporatization create political and economic chaos. Global north governments seek to keep out migrants and refugees from the global south while corporations in the global north want protection to maintain their wealth. U.S. government bureaucratic agencies such as Custom and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit are sent abroad…
Revisiting the policy implications of Covid‐19, asylum seekers, and migrants on the Mexico–U.S. border
Migration Policy in the Era of Trumpism and Media Spectacle
Donald Trump may be the Republican presidential nominee for the 2024 election and is facing multiple indictments for alleged crimes committed during his presidency. If convicted, this would make a Trump election victory unlikely, although he is the master of the media spectacle and populist authoritarianism – essential components of Trumpism. I focus on U.S. migration policy consequences affecting Mexico and other states in the Americas if Trump …
Overcoming Title 42 and the 2022‐3 Venezuelan Migrant Expulsion Spectacle
On October 12, 2022, the Biden administration abruptly changed course and announced that Venezuelan refugees would be immediately subject to Title 42—the policy that effectively means that those migrants would be summarily forced to return, or expelled, to Mexico. For FY 2022, Customs and Border Protection apprehended and/or expelled a total of 2,766,582 enforcement actions (CBP FY 2022). The resulting media spectacle illustrates another example …
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