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Book: Cross-Border Dialogues: U.S. - Mexico Social Movement NetworkingThe Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies, UCSD, is pleased to announce the publication of a new book edited by David Brooks and Jonathan Fox. Published by the Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies Is "globalization from above" really paralleled by "globalization from below?" The Mexico - U.S. relationship offers a paradigm case for exploring the degree to which social organizations and public interest groups from North and South are actually joining forces in an effort to influence the terms of international economic integration. This collection brings together assessments of a decade of social responses to economic integration between the United States and Mexico, documenting the emergence of social organizations and constituencies as key actors in the bilateral relationship. The studies address labor, environmental, trade advocacy, Latino and immigrant rights, small farmer, and pro-democracy/human rights movements. The authors include both key social organization strategists and researchers who have followed more than a decade of cross-border networking. This book tells the story of the uninvited guests to the transnational negotiating table, their strategies, frustrations, and limitations. For many of these broad-based social constituencies, this process involved a major shift toward thinking "transnationally." Their recognition of the ways in which international policies were directly affecting their national and local interests led them to seek out counterparts across borders, though finding common ground required a willingness to "agree to disagree." Beginning more than a decade ago, the broadening of the public debate over the terms of economic integration between Mexico and the United States succeeded in embedding social and environmental concerns on the international economic policy agenda and foreshadowed the widespread international questioning of globalization that followed. "Indispensable reading for every student citizen or specialist of U.S. - Mexican relations in the 21st century. Cross-border economic integration started with big business and big government, but labor unions, environmentalists, farmers and farmworkers, and immigrant and human rights groups have responded by forging new transnational networks and alliances. These ties among social constituencies in the two countries are shaping integration in new and often unexpected ways. Brooks and Fox have assembled a rich and comprehensive set of essays framed by a penetrating introduction and conclusion." -John Coatsworth, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
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