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Monitor: Transnational activism in North America

Monitor Fall 2024 Issue

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Transnational activism in North America

International trade successfully unified capital across borders—but it also unified movements

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In this Issue

How domestic and transnational activism helped transform labour law in Mexico

Since Mexico's progressive government radically reformed labour law, workers and their unions are flexing their muscles across the country

Not just a train, and certainly not Mayan

Why some social movements opposed the Mexican government's controversial megaproject which would lay rail across southern Mexico

The CUSMA Rapid Response Labour Mechanism

What is it? And does it protect workers’ rights?

Migrant solidarity and transnationalism in the San Diego-Tijuana region

The two cities are divided by an increasingly militarized border—but organizers continue to build solidarity across state lines

Finding joint answers to common problems with Carlos Heredia

For Heredia, the only way to address regional problems is to deepen solidarity across borders

Contributors

Authors appearing in this issue

Tamara Kay

Tamara Kay

Tamara Kay is visiting professor of Global Affairs and Sociology at Northwestern University.

Laura Macdonald

Laura Macdonald

Laura Macdonald is chancellor’s professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.

Laura Primeau

Laura Primeau

Laura Primeau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.

Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza Cota is a professor-researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico, where he specializes in economic integration between Mexico and the United States and the social and economic impacts of migration.

Esther Jiménez Atochero

Esther Jiménez Atochero

Esther Jiménez Atochero is a research intern at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington D.C., where her research focuses on the intersection between migration, gender and regularization pathways in Latin American.

Trish Hennessy

Trish Hennessy

Trish Hennessy (she/her) is a senior communications strategist with the CCPA national office and director of its Think Upstream project. She co-founded the CCPA’s national growing gap project and the CCPA’s Ontario office.