The Dividing Line: Misery on the Border--Chasing Mexico's Dream into S. / Ginger Thompson.
by Thompson, Ginger; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 44Business. Publisher: New York Times, 2001ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Cost and standard of living -- Mexico | Housing -- Mexico | Offshore assembly industry | Mexican-American Border Region | Mexico -- Economic conditions | Mexico -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the last five years more than one million Mexicans have moved to the border [Mexico and United States]. Many come not to cross the border but to work in thousands of mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants, known as maquiladoras. The factories sprouted in the mid-1960's, when Mexico and the United States began an industrialization program along their border to ease chronic unemployment in Mexico." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article examines the results of the industrialization program from the viewpoint of Mexicans and addresses the problems associated with heavily-populated border areas.
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Originally Published: The Dividing Line: Misery on the Border--Chasing Mexico's Dream into S, Feb. 11, 2001; pp. 1+.
"In the last five years more than one million Mexicans have moved to the border [Mexico and United States]. Many come not to cross the border but to work in thousands of mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants, known as maquiladoras. The factories sprouted in the mid-1960's, when Mexico and the United States began an industrialization program along their border to ease chronic unemployment in Mexico." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article examines the results of the industrialization program from the viewpoint of Mexicans and addresses the problems associated with heavily-populated border areas.
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