Anthropology of Free Trade

NAFTA collage made from different materials, including a snippet of a photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash (Mexico-U.S. Border). Created by Alejandra González Jiménez. President Trump’s tariff [...]

On a warm evening in June 2009, residents of a local community in the San Quintin Valley organized a meeting with the head of the Comisión Estatal de Servicios [...]

NAFTA’s thirtieth anniversary year was marked by a major trade dispute. Mexico defended its position to limit the production and use of genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate within [...]

Figure 1. Coffee beans ripening on a tree. Photo credit: @jakkapan21 via Canva.com. The thirtieth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) provides a timely [...]

“In 2004, the Canadian mining company Pan American Silver came to take over our lands, lands that we have inhabited for generations. It came promising improvements to our schools [...]

María migrated from Mexico to New York in 1997 to reunite with her partner, who had left two years earlier. When we met in 2000 at a Bronx parish, [...]

Thirty years after NAFTA transformed Mexico’s economy, its entanglement with violence is unmistakeable. While these agreements were created to accelerate the movement of goods and capital across borders, they [...]

Paving the way for NAFTA was as consequential for Mexico as NAFTA itself. Mexico’s entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came with countless conditions. Amongst them, [...]

I A warm spring night in Woodside, Queens, and no one is in sight on the sidewalks. But inside a venue on a deserted street, a crowd of Mexican [...]

The Mural Zapatista, created in 2001 in New York City’s El Barrio, can be regarded as an unintended outcome of decades of free trade in the North American region. [...]