"For asylum seekers the border exists as a strangely dematerialized psychical reality, one in which the asylum seeker is cast outside of the border even if they are geographically within it" — read
@zahidrc.bsky.social's "Border Hysteria" on our online forum:
differencesjournal.org/writing/bord...
Border Hysteria — differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies
In the early aughts or the late nineties, depending on how one counts the
cases, a strange illness emerged among children of asylum seekers in
Sweden.
