Borderlands : Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition

and �outside�, enclosed on the one hand and excluded on the other, and who is obliged to learn, under harsh conditions, the ways of the world and of other people. In this respect, the lives of migrants, even in the uncertainties or dangers of the borderlands, tell us something about the condition in which everyone is increasingly living today, a �cosmopolitan condition� in which the experience of the unfamiliar is more common and the relation between self and other is in constant renewal. [Publisher's Text]

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