ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with a desire to understand diasporic space and its habit of transposing distant geo-political borders to European urban space. It explores the manifestation of displaced borders at different sites in London, in order to understand how these complex spaces and their attendant conflicts affect the lives of those in the diaspora. The chapter argues that the multiplication and diffusion of borders is intimately connected to the movement of bodies, and is affected by the way in which contemporary border regimes carry out an evermore sophisticated filtering of unwanted people. Whilst people may find it difficult to cross borders, images are able to move across effortlessly and through their replication and imitation objects also do the same, taking on new and often surprising meanings. Through an exploration of the travelling Shaheed Minar and the manifestation of Kurdistan in a London street, the chapter also describes how images and their meanings become unstable as they cross borders.
