Accustomed soil -- Border guards and border people -- The community of displacement -- The invisible border -- Homelessness -- We borders -- The right to have rights
Summary
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 personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'
