Migration Should Be a Choice, Not a Necessity: An Analysis of the Impact of NAFTA on Mexican Migration to the U.S.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is debated between scholars whether the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994 between Mexico, the United States and Canada was successful. Supporters of NAFTA will say that it brought economic prosperity to Mexico's manufacturing industry and created millions of jobs. However, opponents of NAFTA will say that the successes of NAFTA came at the cost of the lower-working-class and the once protected agricultural industry. This article argues that the negative effects of NAFTA on the lower-working class consequently led to an increase in Mexico-US migration, since it has traditionally been of lower-working class character. Moreover, this article addresses specifically how NAFTA impacted migration patterns from Mexico to the United States, and how it ultimately affected the undocumented migration patterns we see today. I conclude that it is through a combination of factors that NAFTA is partially responsible for the increase of migration, as well as for the end of undocumented migration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".