Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, "Illegal Traveller" offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is "a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context."

Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, '"Illegal' Traveller" offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'.