The fight against illegal migration: Identification policies and immigrants' counterstrategies

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1592-1609

  Broeders, Dennis ^a,b   Engbersen, Godfried ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy

Author keywords

Counterstrategies; Expulsion; Irregular migration; Migration policy; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547285791     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764207302470     Document Type: Article

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