Abstract

ROLDAN, Genoveva. Migration from Mexico to The United States: the Renewed Liberal Paradox of NAFTA. Prob. Des [online]. 2015, vol.46, n.181, pp.101-125. ISSN 0301-7036.

This research aims to introduce some significant reflections on the theoretical and empirical trends and repercussions of the migration of Mexicans to the United States that have resulted from 20 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It is useful to explore this direction insofar as one of the agreement's main purposes was to reduce migration flows, despite the fact that its formal structure did not refer to this migration system, the largest in the world. This exclusion was made based on the new wave of liberal policy, which said that the free movement of capital and goods across national borders would be accompanied by the containment of labor mobility, a concept theoretically backed by the neoclassical idea of the migration hump.

Keywords : Migration; laborers; labor mobility; liberal policy; labor markets.