Abstract
Within the last few decades, U.S. borders have undergone tremendous change. Border regions have witnessed growing immigration and the relocation of industries under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA, one of the primary political instruments of globalization in the Americas, has, since its implementation in 1994, eradicated trade tariffs between Mexico, the United States, and Canada and thus rendered North American borders more porous to the free flow of goods and capital. But the agreement makes virtually no provisions for the free passage of people and has not prevented the further reinforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border. Here, since the 1990s, corrugated steel walls have begun to replace chain-link fences at the most popular crossing points. Giving primacy to unfettered movements of goods and investment capital, NAFTA has thus been working to create a common North American territory where goods and services can move more freely but where borders continue to intrude on the everyday lives of various groups of people.
I would like to thank Claire F. Fox, Ann Ardis, and Jyotsna Singh for their careful reading of earlier drafts of this introduction. Thanks also to James D. Lilley for his assistance in the early stages of this project.
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Sadowski-Smith, C. (2002). Introduction: Border Studies, Diaspora, and Theories of Globalization. In: Sadowski-Smith, C. (eds) Globalization on the Line. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09003-4_1
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