Centering the margins: The transformation of community in colonias on the U.S.-Mexico border

Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Paso del Norte Metropolitan Region

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 147-172

  Núñez, Guillermina Gina ^a   Klamminger, Georg M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230112919     Document Type: Chapter

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