Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

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<p>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.<br></p>

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<p></p><p>Antonio Trinidad-Requena is Professor of Sociology and Dean in the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at the University of Granada, Spain.</p><p>Rosa M. Soriano-Miras is Professor of Sociology at the University of Granada, Spain.</p><p>Marlene Solís is Professor of Social Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico.</p><p> </p><p>Kathryn Kopinak is Professor Emerita at King¿s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, USA.</p><p></p>

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