posted on 2024-11-14, 05:37authored byTony Simoes da Silva
Refugees, the human waste of the global frontier-land, are the 'outsiders incarnate', the absolute outsiders, outsiders everywhere and out of place everywhere except in places that are themselves out of place - the 'nowhere places' that appear on the maps used by ordinary humans on their travels. (Zygmunt Bauman 2004 80)
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Citation
Simoes da Silva, T. Paper(less) selves : the refugee in contemporary textual culture, Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing, XXX (1), 2008, 58-72. Orignal journal article available.