Region and globalization: The State’s issue

• Main Author: Raúl Balbuena Bello
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2001-01-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: Globalización; Identidad regional; Identidad ideológica
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/285

Region, globalization and identity are the central elements in this document. To starting the interpretation of identity, I shows that the globalization process, even though is the dominant process, doesn´t make desappear the region, but it reaffirm it. Financial and productive processes sustained through the limits of the free competition appear as the elements that will characterize the regionalism process more deeply. The north frontier is a clear example of what the region represents in the globalization process. The regional identity doesn´t underlie to the globalization, the north frontier, the labor processes and its proximity to the most powerful country of the world represents an enormous advantage for the interests of the transnational enterprises when some companies establishing its along the north frontier. Therefore, the region and the globalization appear as a problem of the identity (or of identities if it is required in this document).