Globalization, Neoliberal Ideology, and National Identity: The Historical Uncertainties of NAFTA

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The promulgation of the North American Free Trade Agreement indicates that the United States has entered the era of globalization and neoliberalism. Previous social contracts and ideological paradigms have never been negotiated in the North American general market and have not considered car production in some countries around the world. In 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) held a meeting in Seattle, proposed to accept China with neither worker's rights nor environmental regulations, environmental activists and labor union activists destroy the streets of the city 4 Show off everyone. The WTO meeting failed, but two years later China was accepted. After the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization expanded to include China, the US foreign trade will grow exponentially, but after a short boom in the 1990s workers' wages and American living standards It did not rise so much.

Neo-liberalism is an economic theory that has supported the global expansion of advanced capitalism in the past few decades. The basic idea is to revitalize the 19th century laissez-fairer capitalism (thus neo-liberalism) based on Adam Smith's competitive equilibrium model. I work for the benefit. Competition is free (Stiglitz, 2002). The central aspect of global neoliberalism is focusing on the free flow of commodities, capital and labor across borders. In recent years, immigration problems have been evaluated in contradictory ways: immigration is always a matter of nation state, most national states completely discourage immigration or do so if they do. Otherwise, there are strict access standards and procedures for restricting and regulating immigration control.