ISAAC, MARY: QUESTIONING AN ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXT: BRIGDEN, NOELLE: THE MIGRANT PASSAGE: CLANDESTINE JOURNEYS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA
What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text? A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics? Clandestine migration, a social-political process taken on by migrants that are escaping political and non-political violence but need to mask their nationality and identity in order to successfully migrate. Where is this phenomenon located – in a neighborhood, in a country, in “Western Culture,” in a globa