Approaches to building cooperative linkages in human resources development in the San Diego‐Tijuana and Vancouver‐Seattle binational corridor regions

Abstract

The article examines from a comparative point of view approaches to building transborder linkages in human resources development in two distinct border corridor regions of North America: San Diego‐Tijuana and Vancouver‐Seattle. The article describes the various types of educational and work‐training ties which have been established in each of the corridor regions, the organizations involved, as well as their position within the overall context of transborder relations in each zone. The article also considers how the two different regional settings have had a bearing on the development of these linkages and of the results in each case.

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Lawrence D. Taylor is in the Departamento de Estudios Culturales, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana.

The author extends his thanks to the Comité Técnico del Programa Interinstitucional de Estudios sobre la Región de América del Norte, El Colegio de Mexico for its financial support to do the research used in this article. He also expresses his gratitude to professors Michael R. Pfau of the University of San Diego, and Theodore H. Cohn of Simon Fraser University for providing useful information and comments in the preparation of the manuscript.