Contesting criminality: Illegal immigration and the spatialization of legality

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-33

  Coutin, Susan Bibler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

contestation; criminality; illegality; immigration; Salvadorans; space

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344275888     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480605046658     Document Type: Article

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