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The Hypermobile, The Mobile, And The Rest: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in An Emerging North American Migration Regime

Abstract While the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), in contrast with the European Union, contains only limited provisions on labour mobility, an informal labour mobility regime is emerging in North America. This article evaluates ways in which NAFTA entrenches patterns of inequality within the North American region by rendering some groups of people more mobile than others. In particular, we focus on the unequal treatment of workers treated as “high-skilled” in contrast to those labelled “low-skilled.” This dichotomization means that Mexicans (even “high-skilled” Mexicans) receive unequal access to the North American labour market. We argue, therefore, that the newly configured economic space is not characterized by a single migration model but rather is framed by differing and intersecting circuits of labour migration that establish new patterns of inclusion and exclusion.