Border scans: Sovereignty, surveillance and the customs service in Ghana

Identities

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 397-416

  Chalfin, Brenda ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Commerce; Customs; Sovereignty; State bureaucracy; Surveillance; Territory

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; POLITICAL BORDER; SOVEREIGNTY; TERRITORY; TRADE AND COMMERCE;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 27144434326     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890490493554     Document Type: Article

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