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Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Examines the working conditions, demographics, and urban development engendered by the logic of transnational firms on borderlands
  • Discusses the methodological debate over comparative studies and the benefits of mixed-research approaches
  • Establishes a theoretical framework for the study of the effects of export and/or global industries in local contexts

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction: Global Localized Economies in a Comparative Perspective

    • Antonio Trinidad Requena, Rosa M. Soriano-Miras, Marlene Solís
    Pages 1-12
  3. Globalization as the Worldwide Context for Understanding Local Dynamics

    • Antonio Trinidad Requena, Francisco Entrena-Durán, Marlene Solís
    Pages 13-47
  4. Multi-site Comparative Studies and Mixed Research Designs in the Study of the Glocal

    • Rosa M. Soriano-Miras, Antonio Trinidad Requena, Kathryn Kopinak
    Pages 49-80
  5. Transnational Firms as an Example of Industrial Relocation: Tijuana (Mexico) and Tangier-Tetouan (Morocco)

    • Antonio Trinidad Requena, Marlene Solís, José Manuel García Moreno
    Pages 81-113
  6. Working Conditions in Border Export Industries and Migration

    • Kathryn Kopinak, Cirila Quintero Ramírez, Jenna Hennebry
    Pages 115-151
  7. Settlement Process and Habitable Space

    • Marlene Solís, Inam Benali, Rodolfo Cruz
    Pages 153-179
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 241-250

About this book

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 production”—sites 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Antonio Trinidad Requena, Rosa M. Soriano-Miras

  • El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico

    Marlene Solís

  • University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Kathryn Kopinak

About the editors

Antonio Trinidad-Requena is Professor of Sociology and Dean in the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at the University of Granada, Spain.

Rosa M. Soriano-Miras is Professor of Sociology at the University of Granada, Spain.

Marlene Solís is Professor of Social Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico.

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.

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