State effects on labor exploitation: The INS and undocumented immigrants at the Mexico-United States border

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-180

  Heyman, Josiah McC ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border; Immigration; Labor; Mexico; Policing; States; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032361860     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9801800203     Document Type: Article

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