The US‐Caribbean Border: An important security border in the 21st century

Journal of Borderlands Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1-20

  Haughton, Suzette A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Border problems; Drugs trafficking; Illegal immigration and dependency theory; Security border; US Caribbean border; US Caribbean Border Initiative

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960135997     PISSN: 08865655     EISSN: 21591229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2009.9695736     Document Type: Article

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