Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

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.

• 1. Introduction: Global Localized Economies in a Comparative Perspective; Antonio Trinidad Requena, Rosa M. Soriano-Miras and Marlene Solís.- 2. Globalization as teh Worldwide Context for Understanding Local Dynamics; Antonio Trinidad Requena, Francisco Entrena Durán, and Marlene Solís.-  3. Multi-Site Comparative Studies and Mixed Research Designs in the Study of the Glocal; Rosa M. Soriano-Miras, Antonio Trinidad Requena and Kathryn Kopinak.- 4. Transnational Firms as an Example of Industrial Relocation: Tijuana (Mexico) and Tangier-Tétouan (Morocco); Antonio Trinidad Requena, Marlene Solís, and José Manuel García Moreno.- 5. Working Conditions in Border Export Industries and Migration; Kathryn Kopinak, Cirila Quintero Ramírez, and Jenna Hennebry.- 6. Settlement Process and Habitable Space; Marlene Solís, Inam Benali, and Rodolfo Cruz.- 7. Moving to Stay or Staying to Move? Borderlands and Internal Migrants Negotiating Work and Mobility in Export Processing Areas of Tijuana and Tangier-Tétouan; Jenna Hennebry, Francisco Barros-Rodriguez, and Kathryn Kopinak.- 8. A Synthesis: The Relationship between the Global and the Local in Industrial Relocation on the Northern Borders of Mexico and Morocco; Rosa M. Soriano Miras.