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This article asserts the implications that networks forged by transnational civil society have had for the development of a Mexican town in the Mexican-U.S. border region. It identifies a new type of immigrant migrating from north to south that consists of middle-class North Americans who must work in Mexico in order to survive. They deterritorialize the strong U.S. tradition of founding nonprofit organizations and reterritorialize this tradition in their host country, Mexico. The article concludes that these transnational organizations have acquired increasing economic and political power within the Mexican village, to the degree that the government authorities have to rely on them in order to compensate for the lack of social and cultural development programs.

Introduction. Power and its Multiple Projections in the Americas Part I 1. The Bush Administration and the Theory of "The Unitary Executive" Niels Bjerre-Poulsen 2. The Nation and the Revolution -Techniques of Power and Interpellation in Revolutionary Cuba Jan Gustafsson Part II 3. Talking of Tlatelolco: The Power of a Collective Memory Suppressed but Not Surrendered Julia L. Sloan 4. The Power of Memory: The Construction of the Vietnam Veterans and Kent State Memorials Birgitte Madelung Part III 5. The Power of the Past: British North America in the Second Half of the 18th Century Merete Borch 6. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Exile, International Feminist Encounters, and Women's Empowerment under Military Rule in Chile, 1973-1990 Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Part IV 7. Projecting Power beyond the Law: Transnational Criminal Organizations Richard L. Millett 8. Old and New Ways of Influencing Social Movements in Latin America Mario Alberto Velazquez Garcia 9. Power and Nonprofit Organizations - North American Charity Organizations in a Mexican Town in the Border Region Helene Balslev Clausen Notes on Contributors Notes Index