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Migrant Assignment: Deterritorialisation/Reterritorialisation

By  Paul R Jones 2011

Radostin Sedevchev

Dimensions
Large Tote Bag

A migrant is a person who has crossed the border. S/he seeks a place to make ‘a new beginning’, to start again, gives a person stability. But what makes a place a home? (Sarup:1996:1) The tote bag has become synonymous with the migrant, the refugee and the exile. At airports, coach and train stations, these cheap plastic bags will be bulging with a traveller’s worldly possessions. They are a symbol of the deterritorialisation of consistently moving global labour.
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