La maquiladora tra neoliberismo e nazionalismo messicano (1964-1988)

Abstract

The article analyzes the historical context and the characteristics of the Mexican industries known as maquiladora, in the border zone between Mexico and USA. Mexican and US secondary sources are employed to analyze the historiographical debate on the topic. The essay shows that neoliberalism is the outcome of convergent logics and of various scales in which entrepreneurs of the Mexican norte have employed nationalism as driver for changing the maquiladora’s regional economic model into a global mode of production.

Keywords

• maquiladora
• border
• neoliberalism
• mexico
• nationalism