The rhetoric of the state: Dependency and control in a Malaysian-Indonesian borderland

Identities

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-43

  Amster, Matthew H ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Borneo; Kelabit; Sarawak; State power

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CONTROL SYSTEM; MIGRATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 32144441664     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890590914302     Document Type: Article

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