THE TEXAS-MEXICO NORTHEAST MEGAREGION, WINNIPEG AXIS – GREAT LAKES MEGAREGION AND THE UMSCA CORRIDOR

In this paper, we are interested in showing how the Texas-Northeast Mexico Binational Megaregion and the Winnipeg-Great Lakes Megaregion Axis are being configured the Specific Zones of Intense Accumulation (ZEIAs), considering the city of Chicago as the nerve center of that axis. The T-MEC Corridor will articulate both ZEIAs. At a theoretical level, we take the perspective of global capitalism developed by William I. Robinson, and the conceptual advances that the authors are developing in the CLACSO Borders, Regionalization and Globalization Working Group to explain the conformation of ZEIAs and global spaces for the expansion of transnational capital in the Americas. We consider that the formation of megaregions as well as the recent strengthening of the physical infrastructure in the North American countries that articulates them, are the result of a historical process that began with the restructuring of the capitalist system in the 1970s.

Megaregions; Specific Zones of Intense Accumulation; North America/T-MEC; The Global Space of US-Mexico Border