CHICANO 10B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Grandmothers Of The Plaza De Mayo, Debt Crisis, Neoliberalism
10 Apr 2018
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Creates a free trade zone between the u. s. and mexico. Foreign owned factories that benefit from cheap labor. Mexican folks were brought to the u. s. to do male labor. Migration to the border began in 1965 when the program ended. Refers to the expansion of economies beyond national borders, in particular, the expa yb transnational corporations to many countries around the world. Production is no longer just in the u. s. Foreign-owned assembly or export processing factory that benefits from entitlement taxes or custom fees to the host country and relaxed regulation: Companies import machinery and materials duty free and export finished products. They are also known as twin plants, maquilas and in-bond industries. Over one million mexicans, 80% of which are women, mostly migrants, working i maquiladora manufacturing or export assembly plants in northern mexico, produci for the u. s. Developing countries that borrowed money from the u. s. started to fall into de interest rates.
