Anna Wyss is a social scientist and works as a postdoctoral researcher for the Institute of Public Law at the University of Bern.
This is a timely and important book on a highly politicised and moralised subject. Through meticulous, sensitive ethnographic research, Wyss offers a respectful and insightful contribution to the literature. Melanie Griffiths, University of Birmingham By capturing the humanity of exhausted, desperate migrants, Wyss highlights the inhumanity of the border controls that have produced their situation. This is a beautifully written, brilliantly analysed ethnography. Michael Collyer, University of Sussex