Surveillance, risk and preemption on the Australian border

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 124-141

  Wilson, Dean ^a   Weber, Leanne ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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