This blog aims to highlight ways in which (1) migration is cross-border mobility — open-ended, up for revision and ongoing. Its dynamism exposes the uncertainty and possibility of being human. (2) How borders condition mobility across physical, institutional, cognitive and emotional dimensions — producing unequal experiences of life, death, waiting, ease of movement and belonging. And finally, how (3) categorizations legitimize the invisible cognitive and emotional boundaries that uphold walls, laws and biometrics — internalized through inherited state and cultural logics.
Deconstructing the map is an early, unofficial post (NB: not page, which I later learned!) I made while trying to teach myself how to create a website. I will keep it here because it was an important part of this process…
The Border Runs Through the Tongue: Three Versions of The Double Man

“…the border runs
through the middle of my tongue…”
–Zafer Şenocak
