The diffuse border: Intelligence-sharing, control and confinement along Canada’s smart border

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-165

  Côté Boucher, Karine ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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