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A BSTR ACT Exclusion underlines the xenophobic edicts of the supposed mandate of the majority-predators of minorities-in daily acts of classism and racist jokes. These actions typically take place where dif ferent historicities enter into dispute as a result of displacement. This is the case in Baja California, where these expressions of exclusion are denied but not absent. This paper reveals how xenophobia and racism have been present throughout the history of this border, and have taken new forms today.

This paper consists of a descriptive analysis that explains how the successful performance of the wine cluster is followed by improvements in local development indicators. To this end, certain local development indicators are proposed to describe and compare the wine clusters of Mendoza (Argentina) and Serra Gaúcha (Brazil). In Argentina, the Mendoza wine cluster has stimulated the local development of the region. For its part, Serra Gaúcha is the most successful wine center in Brazil and regards Mendoza as the benchmark in terms of local development.

The problem of the poor local supply to the maquiladora industry settled in Mexico shows, between other things, the lack of valuation of the opportunity that has had the country to develop a strong supply industry. This paper pretends analyse the problem, in order to understand it better and to explore possible solutions. From the situation review of the six northern border states and a survey on a 30 maquiladora plants in Chihuahua City, it has been identified the main aspects like, the low technological capacity of the local industry, in order to supply the goods needed by the maquiladora plants. It is proposed as an alternative solution, a strategy oriented to attract plants with relative low technological level on the products and high technological on the process, to increase the local supply and the high skilled labour, respectively.

The recent studies that focused on the historical process of national identitys construction in Mexico have not emphasized enough one approach: the social representation of territory. This paper explores this topic in the XIXth century Mexico intending to demonstrate how the sense of belonging and the attachment to motherland reduce the imagined nation to the limits of the central lands, the ancient Mesoamerica, excluding of the national social representations the vast north through symbolic stigmatization contrasting with the core (centre) of the country full of geosymbols and posed as a privileged source for historical memory.

This paper studies the possible impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects on natural gas prices on both sides of the U. S.-Mexico border in California. In that state gas prices are high and demand is expected to grow. Several projects for LNG facilities have been proposed and have to cope with public opinions against them. In Baja California, four LNG projects are under development given the rising demand forecasted for the next years. After a detailed study of the opportunity for LNG projects, we conclude with an analysis of the fundamentals of the current and future price formation in both sides of the U. S.- Mexico border.

In this paper we analyze the impact of migration and transborder relationships on thetransformation of the religious field at Mexico´s northern border area. Through the useof statistic and ethnographic evidence, we argue that, contact with a more religiouslydiverse environment and migration, confer singular characteristics to the border religiousfield. However, this singularity does not necessarily imply the diversification of religiousaffiliations of the inhabitants of the region.

The principal goal of this paper is to analize the environmental performance related with the industrial upgrading in the in-bond industry. The key questions are: a) what are the levels of environmental performance in maquiladoras? and b) Is the environmental performance according with the industrial upgrading? Our hypothesis suggests that the capacity and necessity of applying environmental activities is associated with the industrial upgrading. The construction of technoproductive levels and the environmental performance index identified the sociotechnical aspects compared with our key variables.