Community | November 29, 2010 | 6 comments

Why Do Mexican Workers Head North?

treewolf39
Timothy Wise: Mexican agriculture was undermined by NAFTA and companies like Smithfield.


Bio

Timothy A. Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. With a background in international development, he specializes in agricultural policy and rural development. He is involved in ongoing research in the areas of: Sustainable Rural Development, Beyond Agricultural Subsidies, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade. He is the co-author of the book (in English and Spanish), Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico, and The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America. He is the former executive director of Grassroots International, a Boston-based international aid organization. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts' Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.
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    Trade,  NAFTA,  Mexico-US Border
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6 comments // Why Do Mexican Workers Head North? // Video

  • freecrack
  • BillCorcoran
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      BillCorcoran  

    • IMO Mexican workers head north because they know many big corporations, who for the most part are owned by Republicans, will hire them because they don't have to provide health care or a minium wage. Not all Mexican workers come to the U.S. to pick lettuce or cut lawns.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • BillCorcoran:

      Your right. They work construction, reforestation, motel and restaurant industry's, the docks, fish processing, and any other job that is the bottom line grit of everyday life. I saw first hand the flow of laborers increase after NAFTA had been in effect for a couple of years. Around where I live now, they pick Sal-al for floral arrangements. Hard and willing workers. I don't see them taking away jobs from Americans because most of the work they do pays shit and most white American consider those jobs below them.

    • 1 year ago
  • BillCorcoran
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      BillCorcoran  
    • treewolf39:

      We have a lawn care crew who come once a week and they are all Mexicans. I have no idea whether they are documented or not and I don't care because they work their asses off and the keep the outside of our house looking beautiful. I don't see any White people rushing out to work on a lawn maintenance crew.

    • 1 year ago
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