Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco [Hardcover]

This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico. As the contributors explore the similar characteristics of these two borders, they also examine how the global economy circulates around places of productionsites advantageous to the development of export industries. Focusing on transnational firms and the working conditions, settlement processes, and migratory flows they engender, this volume considers if a convergence toward a global culture is inevitable in places of production, or if local resistance emerges in response to the impact of the global.

Chapter 1. A Theoretical Framework for Global Dynamics at the Local Level (Antonio Trinidad Requena, Francisco Entrena Duran and Marlene Solis)

Chapter 2. The Suitability of Multivariate Comparative Studies and Mixed Research Designs (Rosa M. Soriano Miras, Antonio Trinidad Requena and Katherine Kopinak)

Chapter 3. Transnational Firms as Examples of Industrial Relocation: The Cases of Tijuana, Mexico, and Tangier-Tetuan, Morocco (Antonio Trinidad Requena, Marlene Sol?s, and Jose Manuel Garc?a Moreno)

Chapter 4. Working Conditions in Border Export Industries and Migration (Kathryn Kopinak, Cirila Quintero Ram?rez, and Jenna Hennebry)

Chapter 5. Settlement Process and Living Space (Marlene Sol?s, Inam Benali, and Rodolfo Cruz)

Chapter 6. Moving to Stay or Staying to Move? Borderlands and Internal Migrants Negotiating Work and Mobility in Export Processing Areas of Tijuana and Tangier-Tetouan (Jenna Hennebry, Francisco Barros, and Kathrine Kopinak)

Conclusions (Antonio Trinidad Requena, Rosa M. Soriano Miras, Marlene Sol?s, and Kathrine Kopinak)

Antonio Trinidad-Requena is Professor of Sociology and Dean in the FacultlC&