'Illegal' Traveller

an auto-ethnography of borders Global Ethics Series

by Shahram Khosravi

150 pages

en language

Published Sept. 10, 2011 by Palgrave MacMillan.

ISBN:: 978-0-230-33674-2

(1 review)

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."

3 editions

zemestan@bookwyrm.social reviewed 'Illegal' Traveller by Shahram Khosravi (Global Ethics Series)

The Book to read on nation states, refugees and borders

5 stars

A fascinating mix of Autobiography, other biographies, scientific theories and storytelling, this book is hard to put aside once you started reading. It tells the story of borders from the perspective of those who are permanently discriminated against by borders.