Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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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
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
Editors: Antonio Trinidad Requena, Rosa M. Soriano-Miras, Marlene Solís, Kathryn Kopinak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96589-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96588-8Published: 09 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07219-3Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96589-5Published: 26 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 250
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Sociology, Migration