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Multi-site Comparative Studies and Mixed Research Designs in the Study of the Glocal

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We explain the research methodology developed to compare the causes and consequences of processes of industrial relocation in border areas in northern Mexico and Morocco. We have chosen a combined qualitative/quantitative methodology with the aim of emphasizing the discursive dimension of the structural reality of the contexts. We compare the two spaces on two levels: First, we carry out a macro-structural comparison to see if there are differences in the process of relocation of export firms in Tangier with the process followed by firms in Tijuana, highlighting the regularities found in migratory strategies; secondly, we do a micro-structural comparison, comparing the life trajectories of Mexican women and men who have emigrated to the United States with Moroccan women and men who have emigrated to Europe.

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    Rosa M. Soriano-Miras & Antonio Trinidad Requena

  2. University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Kathryn Kopinak

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  1. University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Antonio Trinidad Requena

  2. University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Rosa M. Soriano-Miras

  3. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

    Marlene Solís

  4. University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Kathryn Kopinak

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Soriano-Miras, R.M., Trinidad Requena, A., Kopinak, K. (2019). Multi-site Comparative Studies and Mixed Research Designs in the Study of the Glocal. In: Trinidad Requena, A., Soriano-Miras, R., Solís, M., Kopinak, K. (eds) Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96589-5_3

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