To make public policy recommendations, the deductive method with a qualitative approach was used to identify the empirical correlations between trade, competition, and anti-corruption regulations between Mexico and the United States, within the framework of USMCA. In the light of the findings, it is recommended to limit to a minimum the exceptions available in trade agreements that aim to restrict the application of domestic laws on economic competition and anti-corruption, as well as to standardize the use of the “rule of reason” in competition between administrative and judicial authorities in both countries to harmonize and provide certainty to international transactions and binational production chains. The limitations of this research are those inherent to the subjectivity of the deductive method, but it provides unpublished results as a ground for further investigations.
{"title":"Correlación de las regulaciones comercial, de competencia y anticorrupción entre México y Estados Unidos","authors":"Rubén Leal Buenfil","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2289","url":null,"abstract":"To make public policy recommendations, the deductive method with a qualitative approach was used to identify the empirical correlations between trade, competition, and anti-corruption regulations between Mexico and the United States, within the framework of USMCA. In the light of the findings, it is recommended to limit to a minimum the exceptions available in trade agreements that aim to restrict the application of domestic laws on economic competition and anti-corruption, as well as to standardize the use of the “rule of reason” in competition between administrative and judicial authorities in both countries to harmonize and provide certainty to international transactions and binational production chains. The limitations of this research are those inherent to the subjectivity of the deductive method, but it provides unpublished results as a ground for further investigations.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42425317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper synthesizes the micro-history of the border wall, highlighting the Tijuana-San Diego area in the period 1991-2021 in relation to legislation, border surveillance, and deportations. The objective is to analyze its evolution and impact as an axis of border control and as a modeling factor for the surveillance strategy of the border with Mexico. From a qualitative approach and based on ethnographic experience, a discourse analysis oriented by fieldwork information is made. This thematic intersection and intertwining of methods and techniques is unprecedented. After reviewing the main events, former presidents Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama were more decisive than Trump. Border walls only work in conjunction with the Border Patrol, ICE, and deportations or the Southwest Border Wall System.
{"title":"Muros fronterizos, operativos de control y leyes: Algunos efectos colaterales de la frontera México-Estados Unidos, 1991-2021","authors":"Guillermo Alonso Meneses","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2224","url":null,"abstract":"This paper synthesizes the micro-history of the border wall, highlighting the Tijuana-San Diego area in the period 1991-2021 in relation to legislation, border surveillance, and deportations. The objective is to analyze its evolution and impact as an axis of border control and as a modeling factor for the surveillance strategy of the border with Mexico. From a qualitative approach and based on ethnographic experience, a discourse analysis oriented by fieldwork information is made. This thematic intersection and intertwining of methods and techniques is unprecedented. After reviewing the main events, former presidents Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama were more decisive than Trump. Border walls only work in conjunction with the Border Patrol, ICE, and deportations or the Southwest Border Wall System.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48824874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Manzano-Munguía, Juan Periañez de la Rosa, Ana Lorena Carrillo Padilla
This paper looks at the transnational cultural experiences of a Cantonese migrant while border crossing the United States and Mexico. Specifically, we explore his experiences while residing in transnational spaces (Mexico, the United States, and Canton (Guangzhou)). Fieldwork including participant observation and qualitative data were collected through ethnographic interviews carried out during the period 2014-2016, at a Chinese food restaurant in Puebla, Mexico. Our goal is to understand the border crossing experience as a confluence of activities, which contribute to the construction of epistemologies from below and the understanding of transnationalism from a cultural approach.
{"title":"Transnational Cultural Migration. Mexico-U.S. Border Experiences: A Case Study","authors":"M. Manzano-Munguía, Juan Periañez de la Rosa, Ana Lorena Carrillo Padilla","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2220","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the transnational cultural experiences of a Cantonese migrant while border crossing the United States and Mexico. Specifically, we explore his experiences while residing in transnational spaces (Mexico, the United States, and Canton (Guangzhou)). Fieldwork including participant observation and qualitative data were collected through ethnographic interviews carried out during the period 2014-2016, at a Chinese food restaurant in Puebla, Mexico. Our goal is to understand the border crossing experience as a confluence of activities, which contribute to the construction of epistemologies from below and the understanding of transnationalism from a cultural approach.","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42667305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The objective of this study is to compare prices across ten food categories sold by four large food retail chains in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The data was collected through mystery shoppers across a seven-month period. The analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and analyses of variance (ANOVA). The results suggest that the retailers in the study apply similar prices across ten food categories. This is one of the few studies conducted in the region to address food price convergence in the retail sector. The conclusion is that price convergence takes places among large retail chains in Tijuana. The main limitation of the study is the geographic focus. The implications are that retailers find themselves struggling to differentiate based on price, and end up making unsupported claims around lowest-price value propositions. Future studies can argue whether price convergence limits consumer choices or keeps prices in check.
{"title":"Food retailer price convergence: the case of Tijuana, Mexico","authors":"Eduardo R. Díaz","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2052","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to compare prices across ten food categories sold by four large food retail chains in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The data was collected through mystery shoppers across a seven-month period. The analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and analyses of variance (ANOVA). The results suggest that the retailers in the study apply similar prices across ten food categories. This is one of the few studies conducted in the region to address food price convergence in the retail sector. The conclusion is that price convergence takes places among large retail chains in Tijuana. The main limitation of the study is the geographic focus. The implications are that retailers find themselves struggling to differentiate based on price, and end up making unsupported claims around lowest-price value propositions. Future studies can argue whether price convergence limits consumer choices or keeps prices in check.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48919060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Alejandro Martínez Canales, Berenice Martínez González
The article analyzes the perceptions of young men and women who intervene in popular and marginal enclaves of the Monterrey metropolitan area, by means of educational and art projects. Conceptually I refer to them as cultural producers as they imagine their own autonomous production. This process, expressed in different modes of subjectivation, is also an instrument that constitutes functional effects of the biopolitical governmentality of western societies. The young members of the collectives go through a variety of aspects with their actions, such as political and cultural self-organization, forms of collaboration, and paid employment. The approach is based on the “contingency of life”, and the “precariousness of oneself” as ambivalent forms of self-government that oscillate between self-exploitation and modes of subjectivation, from which these groups perceive the risks and opportunities of the city as actionable and moldable.
{"title":"Jóvenes y colectivos en barrios marginales de Monterrey: aproximaciones a la contingencia de vida y precarización de sí","authors":"Luis Alejandro Martínez Canales, Berenice Martínez González","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2294","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the perceptions of young men and women who intervene in popular and marginal enclaves of the Monterrey metropolitan area, by means of educational and art projects. Conceptually I refer to them as cultural producers as they imagine their own autonomous production. This process, expressed in different modes of subjectivation, is also an instrument that constitutes functional effects of the biopolitical governmentality of western societies. The young members of the collectives go through a variety of aspects with their actions, such as political and cultural self-organization, forms of collaboration, and paid employment. The approach is based on the “contingency of life”, and the “precariousness of oneself” as ambivalent forms of self-government that oscillate between self-exploitation and modes of subjectivation, from which these groups perceive the risks and opportunities of the city as actionable and moldable.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41709545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Ibarra Salazar, Lida Karina Sotres Cervantes, E. Morales
The objective of the article is to estimate the price elasticity of the demand for gasoline in Mexico’s Northern border based on applying monthly data of Mexican regions from 1997 to 2015. The results reveal that the demand for gasoline at the border is less inelastic than inland. A database is provided that includes more observations and regional economic variables compared to previous studies. It is concluded that beyond the economic effects of gasoline-related tourism, the competition faced by gas stations on the Northern border influences the price elasticity of demand. This confirms the importance of gasoline tourism in this region of Mexico, as has been recognized by federal and municipal authorities.
{"title":"Fluctuaciones en el precio y demanda de gasolina en la frontera norte de México","authors":"Jorge Ibarra Salazar, Lida Karina Sotres Cervantes, E. Morales","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2287","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the article is to estimate the price elasticity of the demand for gasoline in Mexico’s Northern border based on applying monthly data of Mexican regions from 1997 to 2015. The results reveal that the demand for gasoline at the border is less inelastic than inland. A database is provided that includes more observations and regional economic variables compared to previous studies. It is concluded that beyond the economic effects of gasoline-related tourism, the competition faced by gas stations on the Northern border influences the price elasticity of demand. This confirms the importance of gasoline tourism in this region of Mexico, as has been recognized by federal and municipal authorities.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47025122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our objective is to analyze, from a geopolitical and legal point of view, the main challenges of water governance in the Great Lakes of North America. The analysis is based on an extended bibliographic search and a triangulation analysis of the corpus thus produced. The first part of the text identifies the concerns of riparian populations in recent years. The second presents the challenges of protecting the basin from climate change and political uncertainty. Overall, the text provides a better understanding of the construction of a transnational water governance model based on the community of interests, which seems to leave behind the old Harmon theory of absolute sovereignty. We will finally ask ourselves, if it will be necessary to attribute a new juridical status to this basin to protect these ecosystems from the challenges raised by climate change.
{"title":"La gobernanza de los Grandes Lagos entre Canadá y Estados Unidos, ¿siempre de común acuerdo?","authors":"Frédéric Lasserre, Yenny Vega Cárdenas","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2188","url":null,"abstract":"Our objective is to analyze, from a geopolitical and legal point of view, the main challenges of water governance in the Great Lakes of North America. The analysis is based on an extended bibliographic search and a triangulation analysis of the corpus thus produced. The first part of the text identifies the concerns of riparian populations in recent years. The second presents the challenges of protecting the basin from climate change and political uncertainty. Overall, the text provides a better understanding of the construction of a transnational water governance model based on the community of interests, which seems to leave behind the old Harmon theory of absolute sovereignty. We will finally ask ourselves, if it will be necessary to attribute a new juridical status to this basin to protect these ecosystems from the challenges raised by climate change.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42869252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mario Luis Fuentes Alcalá, Cristina Hernández Engrandes, Sara Getzemani Alcay Méndez
The objective of this article is to describe the vulnerability situations to the possibility of becoming human trafficking victims for both the mobile and the resident population in the municipality of Tapachula, Chiapas during October 2018 to July 2019, period in which the first caravans occurred on the border between Tapachula, Chiapas and Tecún Umán, Guatemala. It’s the result of a qualitative approach research that has as analytical axes the category vulnerability and the legal framework to confront human trafficking in Mexico, and it’s based on records of field observations in institutions for the protection of migrants and victims of gender violence and in interviews with key informants in Chiapas and in Mexico City. The main conclusion of this work is that the juncture resulting from the response of the Mexican government to the caravans, the austerity policy implemented by the Mexican government and the problems derived from an institutional design that operates without adherence to the legal framework and with exceeded capacities, derived in situations of unprecedented or intensified vulnerability for the populations mentioned above.
{"title":"Situaciones de vulnerabilidad en personas en movilidad y personas locales frente a la trata de personas en el municipio de Tapachula en el contexto de las caravanas migrantes 2018-2019","authors":"Mario Luis Fuentes Alcalá, Cristina Hernández Engrandes, Sara Getzemani Alcay Méndez","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2191","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this article is to describe the vulnerability situations to the possibility of becoming human trafficking victims for both the mobile and the resident population in the municipality of Tapachula, Chiapas during October 2018 to July 2019, period in which the first caravans occurred on the border between Tapachula, Chiapas and Tecún Umán, Guatemala. It’s the result of a qualitative approach research that has as analytical axes the category vulnerability and the legal framework to confront human trafficking in Mexico, and it’s based on records of field observations in institutions for the protection of migrants and victims of gender violence and in interviews with key informants in Chiapas and in Mexico City. The main conclusion of this work is that the juncture resulting from the response of the Mexican government to the caravans, the austerity policy implemented by the Mexican government and the problems derived from an institutional design that operates without adherence to the legal framework and with exceeded capacities, derived in situations of unprecedented or intensified vulnerability for the populations mentioned above.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46287175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The objective of this article is to describe the performance of the total productivity of the manufacturing factors in the Northern border region of Mexico during the period 1993-2018. The methodological approach is focused on Solow´s Residual and Harberger’s Sunrise/Sunset diagrams to identify the contributions of each of the states. The main findings of the research indicate significant increases in the sources of growth for the region. In addition, the region’s progress is diversified among the entities, with Nuevo León being the most prominent. It is concluded that the northern border region has become the largest pole of job creation in the country’s manufacturing sector, although it has been limited in terms of total factor productivity. This makes it necessary to develop intraregional policies with specific measures that improve aggregate productivity in each state.
{"title":"Dinámica de la productividad manufacturera en la frontera norte mexicana, regional y por estados: 1993-2018","authors":"Jimmy Félix Armenta, Adrián De León Arias","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2275","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this article is to describe the performance of the total productivity of the manufacturing factors in the Northern border region of Mexico during the period 1993-2018. The methodological approach is focused on Solow´s Residual and Harberger’s Sunrise/Sunset diagrams to identify the contributions of each of the states. The main findings of the research indicate significant increases in the sources of growth for the region. In addition, the region’s progress is diversified among the entities, with Nuevo León being the most prominent. It is concluded that the northern border region has become the largest pole of job creation in the country’s manufacturing sector, although it has been limited in terms of total factor productivity. This makes it necessary to develop intraregional policies with specific measures that improve aggregate productivity in each state.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41925884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The objective is to analyze the scope of the National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC) and the National Health System (SNS), and its relationship to the attention of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study is within the approach to disaster risk, considering how the concretion of a threat, exposition and vulnerability can affect society. The first part makes a diagnosis of the impact of disasters associated with natural phenomena, as well as the evolution of the COVID-19. Subsequently, the legal framework underpinning both systems is discussed, considering their structure and components for identifying possible mechanisms of collaboration. Among the conclusions is that, despite being two vertical models of intervention, the legislation incorporates both health and disaster risk, which could complement each other. At the end of the pandemic, the strategy to strengthen the health risk management model should be evaluated from the disaster risk approach.
{"title":"Desastres y covid-19: dos modelos para reducir el riesgo en México","authors":"Juan Manuel Rodríguez Esteves","doi":"10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2161","url":null,"abstract":"The objective is to analyze the scope of the National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC) and the National Health System (SNS), and its relationship to the attention of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study is within the approach to disaster risk, considering how the concretion of a threat, exposition and vulnerability can affect society. The first part makes a diagnosis of the impact of disasters associated with natural phenomena, as well as the evolution of the COVID-19. Subsequently, the legal framework underpinning both systems is discussed, considering their structure and components for identifying possible mechanisms of collaboration. Among the conclusions is that, despite being two vertical models of intervention, the legislation incorporates both health and disaster risk, which could complement each other. At the end of the pandemic, the strategy to strengthen the health risk management model should be evaluated from the disaster risk approach.\u0000","PeriodicalId":29996,"journal":{"name":"Frontera Norte","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47250268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}