"The U.S.-Mexico border provides a number of examples of pairs of neighboring cities, one in the U.S. and the other in … Mexico. The advent of the North American Industrial Classification System provides a new opportunity to look at these cities … sector in city pairs that are located along the Texas-Mexico border: El Paso-Juarez, Laredo-Nuevo Laredo, Brownsville …

This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …

, industrializing country like Mexico. One of the policy "problems" NAFTA was supposed to alleviate was that of the northward migration … of unskilled workers. If NAFTA could speed up industrialization and economic growth in Mexico, it might generate enough … substitution and rivalry. They saw labor migration from Mexico as one type of threat to American workers and globalization as …

This paper reviews recent Mexico-US migration patterns and US reactions to Mexican immigration, explores why there may … asymmetries in Mexico-US relations- the United States accepts immigrants from many nations, but virtually all Mexican emigrants …" mentality, especially in rural Mexico, so that, when Mexico experienced devaluations and economic shocks in the 1980s, many …