2022
DOI: 10.1177/0094582x221106160
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Cross-Border Social Practices of Mexican Merchant Women

Abstract: The results of a qualitative study of cross-border social practices of Mexican women engaged in small-scale trade on Mexico’s northern and southern borders reveal that, although their social practices are a response to an instrumental rationality and imply a certain economic autonomy, they develop on the basis of agency and social networks that enable reproduction of reciprocal relations and family livelihood strategies as types of informal labor, giving rise to a form of globalization from below. Los resulta… Show more

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