1. Reflections from the Bridge / 1
Jessica Chapin
2. The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a
Mexican Maquiladora / 23
Melissa W Wright
3. Re-forming the "Traditional Mexican Woman": Making Subjects
in a Border Factory / 46
Leslie Salzinger
4. Gender and the Overlapping of Region, Nation, and Ethnicity
on the U.S.-Mexico Border / 73
Pablo Vila
5. The Polysemy of the Label "Mexican" on the Border / 105
Pablo Vila
6. Metaphoric Enrichment and Material Poverty: The Making of
"Colonias" / 141
Sarah Hill
7. Aliens in Heterotopia: An Intertextual Reading of the Border
Patrol Museum / 166
Eduardo Barrera
8. Controlling the Border in El Paso del Norte: Operation
Blockade or Operation Charade? / 182
David Spener
9. The Border Wall Campaign: Democratic Debate versus
Bureaucratic Authority / 199
Timn. Dunn
10. El Paso as an Eternal Yet Not Last Frontier / 236
Victor Ortiz
11. Environmental Problems in Ciudad Juarez-El Paso: A Social
Constructionist Approach / 251
Pablo Vila and ohn A. Peterson
12. The Rearticulation of the Border Territory in the Stories of
Rosario Sanmiguel / 279
Maria Socorro Tabuenca Cdrdoba
Conclusion: The Limits of American Border Theory / 306
Pablo Vila
Contributors / 343