The Role of Drug-Related Violence and Extortion in Promoting Mex Ican Migration: Unexpected Consequences of a Drug War

Latin American Research Review

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 199-217

  Contreras, Viridiana Rios ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84908371555     PISSN: 00238791     EISSN: 15424278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lar.2014.0038     Document Type: Article

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