'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders

Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, Illegal Travelleroffers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is "a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context."

Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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