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The invisible border, or in Balibar’s words, the ‘colour bar’, waylays you everywhere and nowhere. It startles, humiliates, hurts you. It pierces your soul. The border subtly sets the rock rolling down, forcing you to start rolling it up again.
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© 2010 Shahram Khosravi
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Khosravi, S. (2010). We Borders. In: ‘Illegal’ Traveller. Global Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281325_7
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