Cross-Border Dialogues: U.S.-Mexico Social Movement Networking

		ISBN: 978-1-87836-748-8 $25.95
	2002/441 pages Distributed for the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego

This book tells the story of the uninvited guests to the transnational negotiating table, their strategies, frustrations, and limitations. For many of these broad-based social constituencies, this process involved a major shift toward thinking "transnationally." Their recognition of the ways in which international policies were directly affecting their national and local interests led them to seek out counterparts across borders, though finding common ground required a willingness to "agree to disagree." Beginning more than a decade ago, the broadening of the public debate over the terms of economic integration between Mexico and the United States succeeded in embedding social and environmental concerns on the international economic policy agenda and foreshadowed the widespread international questioning of globalization that followed.

• Movements across the Border: An Overview—David Brooks and Jonathan Fox.
• Labor Perspectives on Economic Integration and Binational Relations —Ron Blackwell.
• The Authentic Labor Front in the NAFTA-Era Regional Integration Process—Manuel García Urrutia M..
• Lessons from the Labor Front: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras—Heather Williams.
• Mexico-U.S. Environmental Partnerships—Fernando Bejarano.
• Cross-Border Work on the Environment: Evolution, Successes, Problems, and Future Outlook—Mary E. Kelly.
• Globalization and Transnational Coalitions in the Rural Sector—Luis Hernández Navarro.
• Farmer Organizations and Regional Integration in North America—Karen Lehman.
• Trinational Organizing for Just and Sustainable Trade and Development: Some Lessons and Insights—John Cavanagh, Sarah Anderson, and Karen Hansen-Kuhn.
• Citizen Advocacy Networks and the NAFTA—Bertha Elena Luján U.
• Integration Policy from the Grassroots Up: Transnational Implications of Latino, Labor, and Environmental NGO Strategies—Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda.
• Mexico-U.S. Migration and Cross-Border Organizing—Susan Gzesh.
• Cross-Border Grassroots Organizations and the Indigenous Migrant Experience—Gaspar Rivera-Salgado.
• Suffrage for Mexicans Residing Abroad—Jesús Martínez-Saldaña and Raúl Ross Pineda.
• Lessons Learned from Relations between Mexican and U.S. Human Rights Organizations—Mariclaire Acosta.
• In the Wake of the Zapatistas: U.S. Solidarity Work on Chiapas—Lynn Stephen.
• Alianza Cívica and U.S.-Mexico Collaboration—Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria.
• U.S.-Mexico Grassroots Challenges: Looking for a Winning Strategy—Ted Lewis.
• Lessons from Mexico-U.S. Civil Society Coalitions—Jonathan Fox.
• Postscript: After Quebec 2001—David Brooks.