Fayuca Hormiga: The cross-border trade of used clothing between the United States and Mexico

Borderlands: Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-116

  Gauthier, Mélissa ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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