Maquiladoras as an Economic After reading lives on the line: dispatcher from the U.S.-Mexico border by Miriam Davidson I feel like the Nogales / Arizona and Nogales borders are becoming one community. For many years the border was less distinct because of Mexicans going over to visit there family and friends and U.S. nationals crossing over to shop and sightsee. But just like everything in the world time changes it. The maquiladora industry bought jobs, environmental degradation, and…
quota to meet each day. When one of the maquiladoras workers becomes pregnant that implies a loss to the firm productivity and money wise because pregnant women cannot produce at the same speed. As fat women as well are not wanted because they are believe to work slow because they cannot stand the heat and also produce at a low speed. Margarita, said that if they would have never change the hiring policy she would have never landed a job at the maquiladoras because she is a plump thirty-year old…
Maquiladoras are “ Factories boomed in the 1980s as anomalies in the Mexican enterprise system. Maquiladoras are 100 percent foreign-owned (mostly US). Companies can import components duty free, use low-cost labor for assembly, and then export finished products to the US, paying minimal duties”0. Maquiladoras may help the mexican economy as well as supplying a surplus of jobs but there’s also a downside. They pay their employees very little while the employees work long hours while performing…
Consider the case of the Maquiladora program, which was implemented in 1965 that further developed the free trade agreement for foreign investors to enter Mexico for manufacturing purposes. While on one hand the Maquiladora program was successful from a business perspective, there were several implications that silenced over the city that impacted mainly the workers and local community. Through globalization, NAFTA and increased foreign attractiveness has affected the Maquiladora workers as…
look them in the house so they cannot escape; others would just give them tranquilizers so that their children can stay out of trouble. These mothers put their child life at risk instead of starting a movement for a child care within the maquiladoras. The maquiladoras workers would be in charge of the child but, many were afraid to take a stand. Just like, when the author explains how her superiors read the factory regulation to everyone and when he was finish he ask if anyone had any question…
logic and goals of the government are sound but the results are minimal, in reality maquiladora industries invest little in technology or human capital development; this trend has depressed the development of technologically advanced maquiladoras, human capital development that would diversify and develop the Mexican economy. Samstad and Pipkin establish the variance between first, second and third generation Maquiladoras, first generation factories are structured as high intensity / low skill…
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is a trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States. Although NAFTA has a lot of good benefits for the economy of the three countries, this doesn’t make those three countries improve because of the criticism they have received. NAFTA is far inferior and it is not a good thing because of the negative influence that it gives to both American and Mexican workers, Mexico’s environment were deteriorated because of pollution, and U.S. wages…
Maquiladora workers and migrant workers have been facing human rights violations at an exponential rates, be it in term of longer working hours without effectively being paid as much or being trapped inside their workplaces. While Maquiladora workers can be primarily found in Mexico post 1994 when the NAFTA agreement was signed, however this hasn’t been the case for migrant workers as those tend to cross borders from third world countries in search of a better lively. Globalization has played an…
imports more than it imports, is as at an all-time high with Mexico. Since NAFTA has started, there are now maquiladoras. Maquiladoras are foreign-owned manufacturing plants that normally import products that are made in Mexico and then are exported tariff- free. This causes a major issue for the people who are working in the maquiladoras because they are working for less money. These maquiladoras do not help with the growth of Mexican production. In Canada, the per capita income decreased…
experience of Latinos in the US has followed the same experience as those of Latin Americas relation with the US since many face the racial bias against them such as the scandal from Steven Woods death, the exploitation of immigrants seen through the maquiladoras and the emphasize of US customs being superior to that of Hispanic…