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Borderwork beyond Inside/Outside? Frontex, the Citizen–Detective and the War on Terror

Nick Vaughan-Williams Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 63-79 | Received 01 Jul 2007, Published online: 09 Apr 2008

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