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Borderline citizen : dispatches from the outskirts of nationhood / Robin Hemley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hemley, Robin, 1958- author.
- Series:
- American lives.
- American lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Philosophy.
- Citizenship.
- Belonging (Social psychology).
- National characteristics.
- Exclaves.
- Refugees.
- Hemley, Robin, 1958---Travel.
- Hemley, Robin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Borderline Citizen is part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage, and part exploration of the unique shards of international territory cut from their "motherlands," as well as people whose sense of patriotism or nationalism has been strengthened or cut adrift by circumstance and history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The traveler in the 21st century
- Walled citizens
- No one will see me again forever
- The great land swap
- Don't be too difficult
- Close calls with a potentially violent felon in Cuba
- They have forgotten many things
- Mr. Chen's mountain
- To the rainforest room
- Present
- Celebrating Russian Federation day with Immanuel Kant
- Field notes for the graveyard enthusiast
- Survivor stories
- Independence days.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781496221858
- 1496221850
- 9781496221834
- 1496221834
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