ISBN:
9780520283510
,
9780520959378 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
301 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520959378
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
364.1098
Keywords:
Grenzgebiet
;
Kriminalität
;
Organisiertes Verbrechen
;
Feldforschung
;
Argentinien
;
Brasilien
;
Paraguay
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. One of the major ""hot borders"" in the Western Hemisphere, the Triple Frontera is associated with drug and human trafficking, contraband, money laundering, and terrorism. It's also a place where residents, particularly on the Argentine side, are subjected to increased governmental control and surveillance.How does a scholar tell...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
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