Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, ''Illegal' Traveller' offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personalexperiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'. SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is the author of 'Young and Defiantin Tehran'. INDICE: Introduction - Accustomed Soil - Border Guards and Border People -The Community of Displacement - The Invisible Border - Homelessness - We Borders - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33674-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés