Neighbors or Partners? NAFTA and the Politics of Regional Economic Integration in North America

Carranza, Mario E.; Bulmer‐Thomas, Victor; Cameron, Maxwell A.; Tomlin, Brian W.; Kingsolver, Ann E.; Mazza, Jacqueline; Poitras, Guy

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“…The first years of the new millennium have witnessed important shifts in the initiatives put forward to realize global economic integration, particularly those seeking to incorporate rural areas and developing regions. During the 1990s, many world regions including the Americas pursued neoliberal policies including free trade agreements (Carranza 2002; Pastor 2004). However, uneven economic performance, popular protest of closed‐door economic summits, and gridlock among negotiators over initiatives such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas have hampered such efforts (Kellogg 2007; Wainright and Ortiz 2006).…”

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Global Economic Integration and Local Community Resilience: Road Paving and Rural Demographic Change in the Southwestern Amazon

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Recent years have witnessed an expansion in international investment in large‐scale infrastructure projects with the goal of achieving global economic integration. We focus on one such project, the Inter‐Oceanic Highway in the “MAP” region, a trinational frontier where Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru meet in the southwestern Amazon. We adopt a resilience approach as an integrative framework to understand various types of road‐paving impacts. We focus on migration activity as an indicator of retention of collective memory, a concept associated with resilience. We pursue a comparative analysis of the three sides of the MAP frontier as well as subregions within each side. Since road paving may be mediated by other factors, we distinguish among the effects of multiple explanatory factors. Data come from a multinational survey of rural communities. The findings show considerable net migration and turnover, both indicative of eroding collective memory and a lack of demographic resilience to externally induced change in the MAP frontier. The findings indicate variation across the frontier, which road paving helps explain, along with some of the mediating factors. These findings contribute to the literature on the impacts of new infrastructure and integration as well as the study of social‐ecological resilience.

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Global Economic Integration and Local Community Resilience: Road Paving and Rural Demographic Change in the Southwestern Amazon

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“…NAFTA in turn motivated expansion into the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in the early 2000s. By the Miami round of negotiations, however, the FTAA was in serious question due to disagreements among participating countries and protests stemming from grievances against NAFTA (Carranza, 2002; Kellogg, 2007; Wainright and Ortiz, 2006).…”

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Social Mobilization in Protest of Trans‐boundary Highway Projects: Explaining Contrasting Implementation Outcomes

Perz

2012

Development and Change

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Trans‐boundary highways have increasingly complemented trade agreements as instruments of global economic integration, and both have incurred political protest. This article presents a comparative analysis of two recently proposed trans‐boundary highway projects, the Trans‐Texas Corridor from Mexico through Texas to Oklahoma in the USA, and the Inter‐Oceanic Highway in the southwestern Amazon where Bolivia, Brazil and Peru meet. The analysis focuses on the similar political contexts, justifications and funding models, as well as the contrasting political responses and implementation outcomes. The findings reveal important differences in the two cases, even among their ostensibly similar aspects, which are necessary to provide an adequate explanation as to why social mobilization stopped one project but not the other. The analysis bears implications for the social‐political study of trans‐boundary infrastructure as an instrument of economic globalization.

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“…Since the passage of the NAFTA in 1993, Juarez has increased and expanded its factory industry. NAFTA opened up free trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada and was implemented to help the Mexican economy by bringing more jobs to the country (Carranza, 2002;Gallagher, 2006;Golob, 2003;Isa, 1999;Kamel & Hoffman, 1999;Public Citizen, 2004). Although this trade policy was designed to boost the economies of the countries involved, it has not been without unexpected and unintended problems over the years.…”

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Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Maquiladora Murders

Pantaleo

2010

International Criminal Justice Review

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This study analyzes the social construction of a wave of female homicides surrounding the maquiladora plants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Specifically, it explores the social construction of the murders by three different groups, the news media, human rights organizations, and academic researchers. The research begins with a content analysis of 35 narratives from newspapers, human rights reports, and academic journals. Sixteen of these narratives discuss North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in relation with the violence in Juarez. Analysis indicates that gender issues are intertwined with the trade agreement and concludes that the policy has aided in the disruption of the social fabric of Mexican society.

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Neighbors or Partners? NAFTA and the Politics of Regional Economic Integration in North America

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Global Economic Integration and Local Community Resilience: Road Paving and Rural Demographic Change in the Southwestern Amazon

Global Economic Integration and Local Community Resilience: Road Paving and Rural Demographic Change in the Southwestern Amazon

Social Mobilization in Protest of Trans‐boundary Highway Projects: Explaining Contrasting Implementation Outcomes

Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Maquiladora Murders

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