• Migration of people= “economically propelled and politically coerced.” (p 145)
• “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS” = ECONOMIC REFUGEES
• cultural theory=post colonial theory
• local context! encompassing all intersections of our existence,

“historical, dynamic, often traumatic, movements of people, ideas, images, commodities, and capital.” (p 145)

• new cultural theory

“For whom is the border a friction-free zone of entitled access, a frontier of possibility.”

•        it is for THUGS= corporate elites, politicians, drug lords (politicians & corporate elites), NGO’s

“Who travels confidently across borders, and who gets questioned, detained, interrogated, and strip-searched at the border?”

• WHAT THE MAP CUTS UP, THE STORY CUTS ACROSS