Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender: Where, how and why women die crossing borders

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-48

  Pickering, Sharon ^a   Cochrane, Brandy ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; death; migration; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873900180     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: 14617439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480612464510     Document Type: Article

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