Caught in the middle: The state, NGOs, and the limits to grassroots organizing along the US-Mexico border

Antipode

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 558-580

  Dolhinow, Rebecca ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASSROOTS LEVEL; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATE ROLE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27844496576     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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