Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas

Latino Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-47

  Stuesse, Angela C ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Border Patrol; Citizenship; Human rights; Immigration; US Mexico

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951451110     PISSN: 14763435     EISSN: 14763443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2009.46     Document Type: Review

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