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610 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2007)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0610 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION NAFTA and Beyond: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Global Trade and Development By PATRICIA FERNANDEZ-KELLY For more than three decades, rapid advances in technology, transportation, and commu- nications have facilitated economic integration on a world scale. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is part of that globalizing process-one of the latest accords whose goal is to codify new arrangements of production backed by a legitimizing narrative: neoliberal- ism. Since its implementation in 1994, NAFTA has increased the capacity of investors to move across international borders, further fusing points in the hemisphere economically but also giving way to new patterns of migration and development. In that context, the term free trade bears distinct and often contradictory meanings. To account for the plurality of inter- pretations behind free trade and to explain the political and economic dimensions of the neoliberal project is one of the purposes of this volume. Another goal is to investigate the inter- national context in which NAFTA emerged, that is, to reach beyond the temporal and geo- graphic delimitations of the treaty to pinpoint the broader implications of global trade and economic change. The articles included here were first presented at a conference held at Princeton University on December 2-3, 2005, which brought together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars-economists, sociologists, political sci- entists, and anthropologists. Their contributions weave a comprehensive perspective interrogating the stated assumptions of conventional views Patricia Ferndndez-Kelly holds a joint position in the department of sociology and Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She has written exten- sively on globalization, industrial recomposition, inter- national migration, and genler With Lorraine Gray, she coproduced the Emmy Award-winning documentary, The Global Assembly Line. Her latest book, edited with Jon She fner, Out of the Shadows: Political Action and Informal Economy in Latin America, was published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2006. DOI: 10.1177/0002716206297972 ANNALS, AAPSS, 610, March 2007 6

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