ABSTRACT
There is a long history in the social sciences of using the migrant experience to explore marginal conditions. As many theorists have explained, margins are also border zones, and migrants straddle many kinds of borders, be they ethno-cultural, geopolitical, gendered, sexualized, legal-juridical or racial. 1 Furthermore, these borders are constantly being redefined by acts of migration. The migration process forces the emigrant to renegotiate his or her relationship to the inherited culture and homeland. Meanwhile, the migrant’s arrival leads the host society to redefine its own cultural, economic and geopolitical borders.
