Constructing a virtual wall: Race and citizenship in U.S. - Mexico border policing

Journal of the Southwest

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-334

  Heyman, Josiah McC ^a,b  

^a Department of Anthropology ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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