Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry

Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry

Using the case of the US-Mexico Mango Industry this paper explores the engagement of the nation-state in transnational activity through the activities of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). US control and certification of mangos imported into the United States is part of a broader sy...

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Autor principal: Álvarez, Robert R.
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Publicado: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2002
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spelling oai:ojs.localhost:article-2802023-01-04T20:46:25Z Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry Más allá de la frontera: penetración del estado-nación, TLC y control externo en la industria México-Americana del mango Álvarez, Robert R. Transnational activity Department of Agriculture Control and certification of mangoes Social sciences economy Price competition capitalism Demographics industry Economic growth The development and planning agriculture Actividad transnacional Departamento de agricultura Control y certificación de mangos Ciencias sociales Economía Precio Competencia Capitalismo Demografía Industria El crecimiento económico El desarrollo y la planificación Agricultura Using the case of the US-Mexico Mango Industry this paper explores the engagement of the nation-state in transnational activity through the activities of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). US control and certification of mangos imported into the United States is part of a broader system that includes NAFTA and historic labor immigration inducing new markets for “ethnic products”. This is part of a broader hemispheric system linked to US prerogatives. Although the USDA (like other border agencies) controls the entrance of commodities at the US-Mexico geopolitical border, the encroachment of this agency into Mexico and its offshore control of commodity production and deistribution is not often a subject of investigation. This paper traces the development of the current USDA certification of mangos for US import, focusing on the hot water treatment of mangos and its controlling effects at local sites of production and distribution. Al abordar el caso de la industria del mango en México y Estados Unidos, este escrito explora el compromiso que tiene el Estado-nación en la actividad trasnacional a través de las funciones que realiza el Departamento de Agricultura estadounidense, cuya labor de control y certificación de los mangos que son importados a ese país, es parte de un sistema más amplio que incluye al TLC y una ya histórica inmigración de mano de obra que ha inducido a nuevos mercados para “productos étnicos”. Esto, a su vez, es parte de un sistema hemisférico más amplio ligado a las prerrogativas de los Estados Unidos. Aunque el Departamento de Agricultura estadounidense –al igual que otras agencias gubernamentales fronterizas– controla el ingreso de productos agrícolas a la frontera geopolítica entre México y los Estados Unidos, la intromisión de esta agencia en las políticas internas de México y su control fuera de los límites de su territorio en cuanto a la producción y distribución de productos agrícolas, no suele ser un tema de investigación. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2002-07-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Census and statistics, historical analysis Censos y estadísticas, análisis histórico application/pdf text/html https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/280 10.21670/ref.2001.04.a04 Estudios Fronterizos Revista; Vol. 2 No. 4 (2001); 115-137 Estudios Fronterizos; Vol. 2 Núm. 4 (2001); 115-137 2395-9134 0187-6961 spa https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/280/435 https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/280/816 Derechos de autor 2014 Estudios Fronterizos Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry
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title Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry
title_short Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry
title_full Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry
title_fullStr Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry
title_full_unstemmed Beyond the borderland: Incursion of the State-Nation, NAFTA and external control within the Mexican-American mango industry
title_sort beyond the borderland: incursion of the state-nation, nafta and external control within the mexican-american mango industry
description Using the case of the US-Mexico Mango Industry this paper explores the engagement of the nation-state in transnational activity through the activities of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). US control and certification of mangos imported into the United States is part of a broader system that includes NAFTA and historic labor immigration inducing new markets for “ethnic products”. This is part of a broader hemispheric system linked to US prerogatives. Although the USDA (like other border agencies) controls the entrance of commodities at the US-Mexico geopolitical border, the encroachment of this agency into Mexico and its offshore control of commodity production and deistribution is not often a subject of investigation. This paper traces the development of the current USDA certification of mangos for US import, focusing on the hot water treatment of mangos and its controlling effects at local sites of production and distribution.
publisher Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
publishDate 2002
url https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/280
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