Bringing back the (b)order: Post-9/11 politics of immigration, borders, and belonging in the contemporary US South

Antipode

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 920-942

  Winders, Jamie ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11; Immigration; Political geographies; Scale; The border; US South

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; IMMIGRATION; NATIONAL SECURITY; POLITICAL BORDER; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; REGIONAL POLITICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TERRORISM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36849007316     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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