Transborder interactions and transnational processes in the border community of Laredo, Texas

Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 163-184

  Márquez, Raquel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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