NAFTA refers to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which eliminated barriers to trade between Canada, the United States, and Mexico in 1994. As a result of NAFTA, Triqui farmers in Oaxaca can no longer compete with cheap American corn, so they have been forced to seek work as migrant laborers instead.
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NAFTA Term Timeline in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
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Chapter 1: Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?”
...corn crop became unprofitable. This was a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which flooded Mexican markets with cheap, subsidized, industrially produced corn from the U.S. The Triquis’...
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Chapter 2: “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration
...detains them in large numbers while denying them access to public services. Economic policies like NAFTA are the migration crisis’s true root cause: they have created the rural poverty and violent...
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Chapter 6: “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering
...making rural Indigenous Mexicans poor, but this was really the result of U.S.-led policies like NAFTA. Similarly, mestizo Mexicans blame Triqui people for their poverty—for example, one nun says that Triqui...
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