Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the Us-Mexico Border

by Suzanne Simon

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA provides the only book-length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA's Environmental and Labor Side Accords, which required each state to enforce labor and environmental regulations. Through field research in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, anthropologist Suzanne Simon tests the premise that the side accords would encourage Mexican grassroots democratization. The effectiveness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826519598
• ISBN13: 9780826519597
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"