The lost ones: Post-gatekeeper border fictions and the construction of cultural trauma

Latino Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 304-327

  Caminero Santangelo, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

border deaths; border policy; cultural trauma; disappeared; undocumented immigrants; US Latino a literature

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649250550     PISSN: 14763435     EISSN: 14763443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2010.27     Document Type: Article

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