Borderline cases : environmental matters at the United States-Mexico border / produced, directed and edited by Lynn Corcoran.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Corcoran, Lynn, producer, director, editor of moving image work.

Bullfrog Films.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Factory and trade waste--Environmental aspects--Mexico.

Factory and trade waste.

Hazardous waste site remediation--Mexico.

Hazardous waste site remediation.

Factory and trade waste--Environmental aspects.

Mexico.

Genre:

Feature films.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (65 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

Environmental matters at the United States-Mexico border

Place of Publication:

[Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]

Language Note:

In English and Spanish, with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Borderline Cases investigates the environmental impact of the nearly 2,000 factories--maquiladoras--that have been built in Mexico at the US-Mexico border by multinational corporations from the US, Asia and Europe. In the early rush to globalization these factories, whose workers are paid a fraction of US wages, did not need to comply with costly environmental regulations. The result, according to one reporter, is that the border became "a 2,000 mile long open sewer, a vast toxic waste dump." The public debate over NAFTA brought the border's problems to light. Today environmental issues take an important place in US-Mexico relations.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Lynn Corcoran, ©1997.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).

Publisher Number:

bf-bc Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.