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On the border: Foxconn in Mexico

Foxconn, the biggest electronic manufacturer worldwide, has strong assembly operations in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-US border. With abundant migrant labor-force, extreme social violence and multinational production are among the main factors that characterize this operation.

By Devi Sacchetto and Martìn Cecchi

/ 16 Jan 2015

The fox at Europe’s door: Foxconn in Turkey

Foxconn came under the global media spotlight a few years ago when nearly twenty workers at its Chinese factory killed themselves by jumping off their dormitory roofs. This is an investigation into their new factory in western Turkey.

By Rutvica Andrijasevic, Devi Sacchetto and Nuran Gülenç

/ 12 Dec 2013

The fox at Europe’s door: Foxconn in Turkey

Foxconn came under the global media spotlight a few years ago when nearly twenty workers at its Chinese factory killed themselves by jumping off their dormitory roofs. This is an investigation into their new factory in western Turkey.

By Rutvica Andrijasevic, Devi Sacchetto and Nuran Gülenç

/ 12 Dec 2013

China may be far away but Foxconn is on our doorstep

Drawing on support from permissive governments, multinational manufacturer Foxconn has set up shop in Central Europe. Yet the transitory nature of the many migrant workers employed in these factories will have serious consequences for the future of labour in Europe.

By Rutvica Andrijasevic and Devi Sacchetto

/ 5 Jun 2013