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Shahram Khosravi: 'Illegal' Traveller (en language, 2011, Palgrave MacMillan) 5 stars

Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, Illegal Traveller offers a narrative of …

It seems the book can be divided in two; the first half being - as said in the description - "a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing". However, after Khosravi has arrived in Sweden and left the refugee center in Kiruna, another story emerges. On racism and the sisyphusic (sp?) struggle of trying to become part of the new, post-border-crossing, society. I'm not quite sure yet what I think of that. It's interesting, but is it relevant to the overall narrative? Or is it more of an epilogue? I guess I'll see, once I've finished it.