<p><span>In this third edition of </span><span>Border Games</span><span>, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border.</span><span> Recent border crackdowns and wall-building campaigns, he argues, are not unprecedented. Rath
Border games : policing the U.S.-Mexico divide
β Scribed by Andreas, Peter, 1965-
- Publisher
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
xviii, 180 p
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xxiii, 207 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm