Us-Mexico Labour Problems
THE US-MEXICO RELATIONSHIP IN GLOBALIZATION ERA
Prepared by
Wendi Aprizal
Matric: 812493
Prepared for Dr. Norafidah Ismail
GFPP 5234 International Political Economy
Strategic Studies of Universiti Utara Malaysia
2013
THE US-MEXICO RELATIONSHIP IN GLOBALIZATION ERA
1. Introduction In this paper author would like to explain about the process Globalization during the cooperation between US and Mexico in NAFTA framework. During the cooperation US asked Mexico to provide immigrant labor from Mexico, in term of providing, sending and working of the labor, we found so many labor rights problems that they have to solve seriously. In this article author would like to analyze the development of relationship between US and Mexico, what the indicators of development are related to US-Mexico relationship in Globalization era, the author also would like to define the interdependency Mexico to US in providing the immigrant labor. During Globalization Era, in term of economic cooperation US and Mexico has a close relationship, US is the largest trading partner of Mexico because we can see that the point of accounting shows half of all exports in 2008 and for import’s point show more than half in 2009. In the other hand, based on US economic and foreign policy, Mexico arrived on third position as largest trading partner of US after Canada and China related to data on June 2010. US and Mexico together with Canada have economic cooperation and They have signed the cooperation in 1994 as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The main purposes of the economic cooperation is minimizing barriers to trade and investment, one of the effect during NAFTA cooperation between US and Mexico, based on Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Mexico, in 2008 around 41% from US has been invested to Mexico and stimulated and show that the process of investment has risen steadily since NAFTA and mostly half of investment are in
Prepared by
Wendi Aprizal
Matric: 812493
Prepared for Dr. Norafidah Ismail
GFPP 5234 International Political Economy
Strategic Studies of Universiti Utara Malaysia
2013
THE US-MEXICO RELATIONSHIP IN GLOBALIZATION ERA
1. Introduction In this paper author would like to explain about the process Globalization during the cooperation between US and Mexico in NAFTA framework. During the cooperation US asked Mexico to provide immigrant labor from Mexico, in term of providing, sending and working of the labor, we found so many labor rights problems that they have to solve seriously. In this article author would like to analyze the development of relationship between US and Mexico, what the indicators of development are related to US-Mexico relationship in Globalization era, the author also would like to define the interdependency Mexico to US in providing the immigrant labor. During Globalization Era, in term of economic cooperation US and Mexico has a close relationship, US is the largest trading partner of Mexico because we can see that the point of accounting shows half of all exports in 2008 and for import’s point show more than half in 2009. In the other hand, based on US economic and foreign policy, Mexico arrived on third position as largest trading partner of US after Canada and China related to data on June 2010. US and Mexico together with Canada have economic cooperation and They have signed the cooperation in 1994 as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The main purposes of the economic cooperation is minimizing barriers to trade and investment, one of the effect during NAFTA cooperation between US and Mexico, based on Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Mexico, in 2008 around 41% from US has been invested to Mexico and stimulated and show that the process of investment has risen steadily since NAFTA and mostly half of investment are in
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