Recent Publications

Books

The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico. La Jolla, CA.: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD.  2004 (contributor and editor)

Desert Capitalism:  What Are Maquiladoras?  Montreal:  Black Rose Books.  1997.

Desert Capitalism:  Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press. 1996.

Refereed Articles

"Types of Migration Enabled by Maquiladoras in Baja California, Mexico: The Importance of Commuting" Journal of Borderlands Studies.. 28 (1): 2013: 75-91. (With Rosa Maria Soriano Miras). Click Here to Read Article

"How Maquiladora Industries Contribute to Mexico-U.S. Labor Migration" Papers. 96(3) 2011: 633-655 .Click Here to Read Article

 

 “Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models" Papeles de Población. 9 (37) 2003: 219-242.

 

“Maquiladora Industrialization of the Baja California Peninsula: the coexistence of thick and thin globalization with economic regionalism” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2003, 27 (2): 319-336. Click Here to Read Article  Click here for colored maps.

“La fuerza de trabajo en la maquiladora: ubicación de sus espacios laborales y de reproducción en Tijuana” Región y Sociedad, 2003. XV (26): 3 – 48.  (Co-author Ma. Del Rocio Barajas) Click here to read article

“Oportunidades desaprovechadas por las industrias maquiladoras en Nogales, Sonora” in María Eugenia de la O and Cirila Quintero (coordinadoras) Globalización, Trabajo y Maquilas: las nuevas y viejas fronteras de la inversión transnacional en México. México, D.F.: Plaza y Valdés, 2002. pp. 157 – 184. Click here to read article.

“Too Close for Comfort? The Proximity of Industrial Hazardous Wastes to Local Populations in Tijuana, Baja California” Journal of Environment and Development. 2002. 11 (3): 215-246. (Co-author Ma.Del Rocio Barajas)  Click here to read article   Colored Figures 1,2,3 & 4    

          “Environmental Implications of New Mexican Industrial Investment: The Rise of Asian Origin Maquiladoras As Generators of Hazardous Waste” Asian Journal of Latin American Studies. 2002. 15 (1): 91-120. Click here to read article.

“Industrial Exchanges Across the U. S.-Mexico Border:  the Export Platform Thesis Reconsidered in Tijuana and San Diego” Frontera Norte 1998: 10 (19): 35-46.

"The Post-NAFTA Impact of Mexican Export-Processing Industries on Migration" in Labour, Capital, and Society. 31 (1&2) 1998:  100-117.

"Transitions in the Maquilization of Mexican Industry:  Movement and Stasis from 1965 to 2001" Labour, Capital and Society, 28 (1), 1995:  68-94.

"Technology and the Organization of Work In Mexican Maquiladoras" Studies In Political Economy, 48, 1995:  31-70.

"Gender as a Vehicle for the Subordination of Women Maquiladora Workers in Mexico", in Latin American Perspectives, 84 (Special Issue on Labor and the Free Market In The Americas) 22 (1), 1995. pp. 30-48.

Chapters in Books

Jenna Hennebry, Kathryn Kopinak, Rosa Soriano, Antonio Trinidad, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. “From ‘Hedema’ to ‘Zemegria’: Morocco as a “Migration Hub” for the EU” in Margaret Walton-Roberts and Jenna Hennebry (eds). Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood. Spilling Over the Wall. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. Pp. 65-81.

Kathryn Kopinak, Rosa Maria Soriano, Antonio Trinidad, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Jenna Hennebry. “A Transatlantic Comparison of the Impact of Production for Export on International Migration” in María del Rosio Barajas Escamilla and Marlene Solís Pérez (coordinadoras) Fronteras comparadas: desarrollo, trabajo y migración. México-Estados Unidos/Marruecos-Unión Europea. Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. 2013. Pp. 119-150.

“Counting the Environment In: Considerations of the Risk of Hazardous Maquiladora Waste” in Equity and Sustainable Development: Reflections From the U.S.-Mexico Border. Edited by Jane Clough-Riquelme and Nora Bringas Rabago. La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 2006. Pp. 125-147.

 

 

“Hacia una teoría de la industria maquiladora mexicana que considere los impactos en el medio ambiente” in El medio ambiente y la maquila en México: un problema ineludible. Edited by Jorge Carillo and Claudia Chatan. Mexico: CEPAL, 2005. (co-author Saúl Guzmán García). Pp. 203-250.

 

“Condiciones de trabajo y relaciones laborales en la maquila' in Enrique de la Garza y José Alfonso Bouzas (Coordinadores) Cambios en las relaciones laborales.  Enfoque sectorial y regional.  Capítulo 2. Vol. 1.  Mexico, D.F., UNAM, 1999:  81-150. (with Jorge Carrillo)

 

"Household, Gender, and Migration in Mexican Maquiladoras:  The Case of Nogales", in Alan B. Simmons (ed.) International Migration, Refugee Flows and Human Rights in North America:  The Impact of Free Trade and Restructuring.  Staten Island, New York:  Center for Migration Studies, 1996. pp. 214-228.

 

"The Double-edged Role of Religious Politics in Empowering Women Maquiladora Workers in Juárez, Mexico, from 1968 to 1988" in H. Dagenais and D. Pich (eds.) Women, Feminism And Development/Fémmes, Féminisme et Développement.  Montreal:  Queen's-McGill, 1994.  pp. 327-357.

 

"The Maquiladorization of the Mexican Economy", in R. Grinspun and M. Cameron (eds.) The Political Economy of North American Free Trade.  New York: St. Martins, 1993. (McGill-Queens in Canada). pp. 141-162.

 

"The Religious Basis of Resistance to Gender Exploitation in the U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Zone", in The Influence Of The Frankfurt School On Contemporary Theology.  Edited by A. J. Reimer.  Lewiston, New York:  Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.  pp. 297-329.
 

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