Sentence examples for border dwellers from inspiring English sources

Like a handful of other border dwellers in the same situation, Mr. Loop and his family will be required to use a secret code to reach their home — and to re-enter the rest of his country.

Lander thinks that the border dwellers are more sophisticated because they do not unthinkingly embrace the chivalric codes but challenge them in a philosophical, and in the case of Bertilak's appearance at Arthur's court literal sense.

We are confronted with a situation where the clash between enforcement policies and our common border dwelling have created a confrontational and violent result -- the loss of human life -- raising important questions for all border dwellers".

This requires, according to Hale, maintaining human bonds with non-trans feminist women and travelling to their "worlds" while continuing to recognize oneself as a border dweller.

She recognizes herself as a border dweller, torn between the demands of conflicting cultures (for example, anglo and Mexican) (1987, 100).

In return, border-dwellers on both sides often feel less close to their countrymen than to the people across the line.

Gallows humour, Tijuana-style.An ability to laugh at things that scare their compatriots is not the only thing that distinguishes border-dwellers.

Accenting the liabilities of belonging to more than one subordinated group, Kimberlé Crenshaw likens the position of such individuals to that of a pedestrian hit by several speeding vehicles simultaneously, and María Lugones likens their position to that of a stateless border-dweller who is not at home anywhere (Crenshaw 1991; Lugones 1992).

The model allows Hale to, perhaps in the spirit of Anzaldúa, speak of "border zone dwellers"—individuals who live at the edges of multiple, overlapping identity categories.

However, since these border zone dwellers are marginal with respect to the categories, their fit in all cases will be only limited and tenuous.

Similarly, border zone dwellers may face pressure to claim identity categories that do not work well and which threaten to erase the specifics of their lived experiences (336).