1. Part II: Border Crossings Alicia Schmidt Camacho

2.  Post-1965: transformation of Mexico-US border region  Rapid industrialization Northern Mexico prompts migration  The story of “Lupita Epoxy” (Maria Guadalupe Torres): “We burnt our hands every day” p. 240 A maquiladora-factory in Mexico

3.  Manufacturing sites dispersed in industrializing nations with inexpensive labor supplies (243)  High level of capital mobility (resurgence of multinational capital)  New class subject: the “Third World/global woman” (244) Factory workers making urinary drainage units for the Intermed Company of Sparta, New Jersey.

4.  Mexican government program in response to end of Bracero Program  Intended workforce: Mexican male emigrants  Actual workforce: predominantly women

5.  Obrera testimonials  Chicana feminism

6.  NAFTA (p. 288)  Operation Gatekeeper (p. 289)  Migrant understandings (p. 291)  Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (National Geographic, 2006)