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Migrant Imaginaries

Migrant Imaginaries. Part II: Border Crossings Alicia Schmidt Camacho. Narrative Acts: Fronteriza Stories of Labor and Subjectivity. Post-1965: transformation of Mexico-US border region Rapid industrialization Northern Mexico prompts migration

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Migrant Imaginaries

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  1. Migrant Imaginaries Part II: Border Crossings Alicia Schmidt Camacho

  2. Narrative Acts: Fronteriza Stories of Labor and Subjectivity • 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. The Reorganization of global capitalism and the new class subject, 1973-1989 • 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. Maquiladora Production • Mexican government program in response to end of Bracero Program • Intended workforce: Mexican male emigrants • Actual workforce: predominantly women

  5. subaltern discourse of Mexican Maquiladoras • Obrera testimonials • Chicana feminism

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

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