'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders

by Shahram Khosravi

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'.

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, Politics, Academic, Iran, Autobiography, Ethnography

160 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 2010