No safe place: Environmental hazards and injustice along Mexico's northern border

Social Forces

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2241-2265

  Grineski, Sara E ^a   Collins, Timothy W ^a   De Lourdes Romo Aguilar, María ^b   Aldouri, Raed ^a  

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

^b El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Ciudad Juárez   (Argentina)

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EID: 77956074649     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2010.0036     Document Type: Article

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