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Economic & Political Conditions in Mexico | Immigration
Occupational Safety and Health | Multicultural Education

Economic and Political Conditions in Mexico

From the Interhemispheric Resource Center - www.irc-online.org - These articles, along with many other relating to the Americas, can be found at www.americaspolicy.org: "NAFTA, Corn and Mexico's Agricultural Trade Liberalization," "NAFTA, Foreign Direct Investment, and Sustainable Industrial Development in Mexico," "Seven Myths about NAFTA and Three Lessons for Latin America" - November 2003.

Mexico Solidarity Network - www.mexicosolidarity.org - Provides weekly updates on developments in Mexico.

NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America) Report on the Americas - This bimonthly magazine, published since 1966, provides critical analysis of developments in Latin America. $32/year. To subscribe, contact NACLA, P.O. Box 77; Hopewell, PA 16650-0077. www.nacla.org

NAFTA's Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere - John Audley, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Sandra Polaski and Scott Vaughan, 2003, English or Spanish version - This report shares information about trends in Mexico since NAFTA was passed. "Real wages in Mexico are lower now than they were when the agreement was adopted, despite higher productivity. Income inequality is greater there, and immigration has continued to soar." Can be downloaded from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, www.ceip.org/pubs

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Immigration

Dream Act - www.communitychange.org/unitedwedream/index.asp - This website provides information about the push to allow children born in other countries but moved here by undocumented immigrant parents to attend college without paying out-of-state tuition or experiencing entrance problems.

La Jornada Sin Fronteras - www.lajornadausa.com (Spanish only) - This is a web page designed for Mexican immigrants to the United States. It contains news from the US and Mexico, information on immigration policy, and links to useful groups and resources for Mexican immigrants in the US.

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Occupational Safety and Health

Popular information materials are available from the Committees on Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) network throughout the US. Information is available in both English, www.coshnetwork.org, and Spanish, www.coshnetwork.org/paginaespanol.htm. In the South, NCCOSH in North Carolina is especially active and has worked with immigrant and non-immigrant workers for a long time.

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Multicultural Education

Multicultural Education (Alan H. Jones, Editor) - This quarterly magazine features articles, reviews, practices, art, music, and resources related to the field of multicultural education. Subscriptions are $50 for individuals and $80 for institutions. Available from Caddo Gap Press, http://www.uakron.edu/aesa/publications, telephone (415) 392-1911, fax (415) 956-3702, email caddogap@aol.com.

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