Border security as practice: An agenda for research

Security Dialogue

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-208

  Côté Boucher, Karine ^a   Infantino, Federica ^b,c   Salter, Mark B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c SCIENCES PO   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

border security; ethnography; practice; street level bureaucrats; the everyday

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901707248     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010614533243     Document Type: Article

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