Overview
This book addresses the challenges confronting undocumented immigrants and those charged with regulating their actions. Focusing on the personal narratives of undocumented people, it pursues an interdisciplinary and language-based approach to the study of how undocumented immigrants experience border-crossing. Addressing the translation and interpretation of personal narratives in a fickle, shifting and often defiant legal context, Robert Barsky elicits the often arbitrary and ever-shifting combination of laws, regulations and rules that contribute to a sense amongst immigrants themselves that the legal context is absurd, untenable, unpredictable, changeable, and even illusory or 'fictional'.
- | Author: Robert F. Barsky
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 18, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 220 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138849480
- | ISBN-13: 9781138849488
