Kathryn Kopinak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Kopinak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kopinak |
| SIGNATURE | KOPINAK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4535-1539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Export Production in Casablanca, Morocco: How Declining Globalization Affects Emigration and Unionization
This paper assesses the effects of declining globalization on the emigration and unionization of export employees in Casablanca, Morocco. Ninety-two in-depth interviews (2015-2017) were analyzed using qualitative methodology. The supply chains of export companies which had facilitated emigration deteriorated over many crises. Emigration and the desire to emigrate declined. Many union gains were diminished or cut. Unions resisted greater precarity…
La economía global localizada en el norte de Marruecos
Partiendo del concepto de globalismo (Beck) y de la teoría del sistemaglobal (Sklair) se ha estudiado el proceso de «relocalización industrial dela región de Tánger-Tetuán» (Marruecos). La regulación laboral y lacercanía con Europa han convertido a esta región en un lugarprivilegiado para relocalizar la empresa transnacional. Para conocer eldiscurso de los agentes sociales que comparten espacio e intereses,especialmente aquellos que ocupan una po…
Wages, integration, migration motivation: Cases of export industry employees in Tijuana and Tangiers-Tetouan
Recent commentaries on migration integration suggest that researchers focus more on cities than nation states and include considerations of political economy, societal inequality and shifts in production. This article analyses how different aspects of wages of export industry (EI) migrant and borderlander workers in Tijuana, Mexico and Tangiers-Tetouan, Morocco limit their socioeconomic integration and lead to their greater identification with fo…
Types of Migration Enabled by Maquiladoras in Baja California, Mexico: The Importance of Commuting
This article analyzes a relatively new stream of labor migrants from Mexico to the US, those who have worked in export-processing industries, or maquiladoras, in Mexico before or at the same time as crossing the border to work. The focus is on what kind of migrants they are, addressing how those with maquila work experience compare with the traditional migratory stream of agricultural workers. The methodology is Grounded Theory and use is also ma…
How Maquiladora Industries Contribute to Mexico-U.S. Labor Migration
While the California corridor of the U.S.-Mexico border is known for its concentration of large maquiladoras, as well as a route for migration into the United States, there has been little research on how maquiladora employment impacts on international labor migration using subjects north of the border. An analysis of data from the Encuesta sobre Migracin en la Frontera Norte de Mxico (1993Mxico ( -1997)), administered to those returned by the Bo…
Maquiladora industrialization of the Baja California peninsula: The Coexistence of Thick and Thin Globalization With Economic Regionalism
This article assesses the shape of industrial growth at the western end of the US-Mexican border, analysing the degree to which globalization has diminished and/or restructured this international division. Baja California's connection to external economies is highly variable in tourism, agribusiness and export processing, with electronic maquiladoras clustering and garment production fragmenting. Most recently, dynamism has been driven by Asian i…
Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
Household, Gender and Migration in Mexican Maquiladoras: The Case of Nogales
Technology And The Organization of Work in Mexican Transport Equipment Maquilas
One of the central goals of continental economic integration is the reorganization of manufacturing, a process that has been characterized by massive job loss in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the continent, and in central Mexico. The US southwest and the Northern Industrial Belt of Mexico have been important receiving areas in this regional industrial re-alignment. Surviving factories, as well as completely new ones, have been relocate…
Gender as a Vehicle for the Subordination of Women Maquiladora Workers in Mexico
At a meeting of the national executive committee of the Partido Acci6n Nacional (National Action Party-PAN) in May 1993, the party's president, Castillo Peraza, argued that the Mexican government's nervousness over the postponement of U.S. approval for NAFTA was really a fear of losing its grip on power, since Mexicans were already living with the consequences of the opening and globalization of their economy (see Galarza, 1993: 18). For over a d…
Gender differences in political ideology in Canada
Women in Canadian municipal politics: Two steps forward, one step back
A Business Unlike Others: A Review of the Royal Commission on Newspapers
Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
Gender as a Vehicle for the Subordination of Women Maquiladora Workers in Mexico
At a meeting of the national executive committee of the Partido Acci6n Nacional (National Action Party-PAN) in May 1993, the party's president, Castillo Peraza, argued that the Mexican government's nervousness over the postponement of U.S. approval for NAFTA was really a fear of losing its grip on power, since Mexicans were already living with the consequences of the opening and globalization of their economy (see Galarza, 1993: 18). For over a d…
Gender differences in political ideology in Canada
Women in Canadian municipal politics: Two steps forward, one step back
La economía global localizada en el norte de Marruecos
Partiendo del concepto de globalismo (Beck) y de la teoría del sistemaglobal (Sklair) se ha estudiado el proceso de «relocalización industrial dela región de Tánger-Tetuán» (Marruecos). La regulación laboral y lacercanía con Europa han convertido a esta región en un lugarprivilegiado para relocalizar la empresa transnacional. Para conocer eldiscurso de los agentes sociales que comparten espacio e intereses,especialmente aquellos que ocupan una po…
Types of Migration Enabled by Maquiladoras in Baja California, Mexico: The Importance of Commuting
This article analyzes a relatively new stream of labor migrants from Mexico to the US, those who have worked in export-processing industries, or maquiladoras, in Mexico before or at the same time as crossing the border to work. The focus is on what kind of migrants they are, addressing how those with maquila work experience compare with the traditional migratory stream of agricultural workers. The methodology is Grounded Theory and use is also ma…
Wages, integration, migration motivation: Cases of export industry employees in Tijuana and Tangiers-Tetouan
Recent commentaries on migration integration suggest that researchers focus more on cities than nation states and include considerations of political economy, societal inequality and shifts in production. This article analyses how different aspects of wages of export industry (EI) migrant and borderlander workers in Tijuana, Mexico and Tangiers-Tetouan, Morocco limit their socioeconomic integration and lead to their greater identification with fo…
Maquiladora industrialization of the Baja California peninsula: The Coexistence of Thick and Thin Globalization With Economic Regionalism
This article assesses the shape of industrial growth at the western end of the US-Mexican border, analysing the degree to which globalization has diminished and/or restructured this international division. Baja California's connection to external economies is highly variable in tourism, agribusiness and export processing, with electronic maquiladoras clustering and garment production fragmenting. Most recently, dynamism has been driven by Asian i…
A Business Unlike Others: A Review of the Royal Commission on Newspapers
Women in Canadian municipal politics: Two steps forward, one step back
Gender differences in political ideology in Canada
Technology And The Organization of Work in Mexican Transport Equipment Maquilas
One of the central goals of continental economic integration is the reorganization of manufacturing, a process that has been characterized by massive job loss in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the continent, and in central Mexico. The US southwest and the Northern Industrial Belt of Mexico have been important receiving areas in this regional industrial re-alignment. Surviving factories, as well as completely new ones, have been relocate…
Gender as a Vehicle for the Subordination of Women Maquiladora Workers in Mexico
At a meeting of the national executive committee of the Partido Acci6n Nacional (National Action Party-PAN) in May 1993, the party's president, Castillo Peraza, argued that the Mexican government's nervousness over the postponement of U.S. approval for NAFTA was really a fear of losing its grip on power, since Mexicans were already living with the consequences of the opening and globalization of their economy (see Galarza, 1993: 18). For over a d…
Household, Gender and Migration in Mexican Maquiladoras: The Case of Nogales
Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
Maquiladora industrialization of the Baja California peninsula: The Coexistence of Thick and Thin Globalization With Economic Regionalism
This article assesses the shape of industrial growth at the western end of the US-Mexican border, analysing the degree to which globalization has diminished and/or restructured this international division. Baja California's connection to external economies is highly variable in tourism, agribusiness and export processing, with electronic maquiladoras clustering and garment production fragmenting. Most recently, dynamism has been driven by Asian i…
How Maquiladora Industries Contribute to Mexico-U.S. Labor Migration
While the California corridor of the U.S.-Mexico border is known for its concentration of large maquiladoras, as well as a route for migration into the United States, there has been little research on how maquiladora employment impacts on international labor migration using subjects north of the border. An analysis of data from the Encuesta sobre Migracin en la Frontera Norte de Mxico (1993Mxico ( -1997)), administered to those returned by the Bo…
Types of Migration Enabled by Maquiladoras in Baja California, Mexico: The Importance of Commuting
This article analyzes a relatively new stream of labor migrants from Mexico to the US, those who have worked in export-processing industries, or maquiladoras, in Mexico before or at the same time as crossing the border to work. The focus is on what kind of migrants they are, addressing how those with maquila work experience compare with the traditional migratory stream of agricultural workers. The methodology is Grounded Theory and use is also ma…
Wages, integration, migration motivation: Cases of export industry employees in Tijuana and Tangiers-Tetouan
Recent commentaries on migration integration suggest that researchers focus more on cities than nation states and include considerations of political economy, societal inequality and shifts in production. This article analyses how different aspects of wages of export industry (EI) migrant and borderlander workers in Tijuana, Mexico and Tangiers-Tetouan, Morocco limit their socioeconomic integration and lead to their greater identification with fo…
La economía global localizada en el norte de Marruecos
Partiendo del concepto de globalismo (Beck) y de la teoría del sistemaglobal (Sklair) se ha estudiado el proceso de «relocalización industrial dela región de Tánger-Tetuán» (Marruecos). La regulación laboral y lacercanía con Europa han convertido a esta región en un lugarprivilegiado para relocalizar la empresa transnacional. Para conocer eldiscurso de los agentes sociales que comparten espacio e intereses,especialmente aquellos que ocupan una po…
Export Production in Casablanca, Morocco: How Declining Globalization Affects Emigration and Unionization
This paper assesses the effects of declining globalization on the emigration and unionization of export employees in Casablanca, Morocco. Ninety-two in-depth interviews (2015-2017) were analyzed using qualitative methodology. The supply chains of export companies which had facilitated emigration deteriorated over many crises. Emigration and the desire to emigrate declined. Many union gains were diminished or cut. Unions resisted greater precarity…
Political science (13 works) · Economic Zones and Regional Development (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Law (4 works)