Desigualdades y flujos globales en la frontera noreste de México: los efectos de la migración, el comercio, energéticos y crimen organizado transnacional

Resumen

The present paper analyzes the effects of global flows on socioeconomic inequality in the four Mexican states bordering Texas: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Chihuahua. In particular, this work analyzes the effects of migration, cross-border trade, extraction and trade of hydrocarbons, and transnational organized crime. The results of the present research clearly show higher levels of inequality in the municipalities of greater economic dynamism and presence of (formal, informal or illicit) global flows. Transnational organized crime has a strong presence in these states of the Mexican Republic and seems to operate in the same direction than the rest of formal global flows, that is, reinforcing inequalities within these Mexican states, as well as inequalities between Mexican and Texan border cities.