Taking as its central premise that migrant experiences shed light on the human condition through the "embodied, cognitive and existential experience of living `in between' or on the `borderlands' between differently figured life-worlds," as editor Grønseth (social anthropology, U. College of Lillehammer, Norway) writes in his introduction, this volume contains six essays that address migrant experiences of self and well-being in physical and existential `borderlands.' Specific topics include fantasy, subjectivity, and vulnerability in the story of a woman asylum-seeker in Italy; Tamil refugees' sense of identity and agency in relation to past and future; transforming subjectivity in the case of a Dutch migrant woman in Northern Ireland; fear, Othering, and the spatial relocation of the Ljubljana Asylum Home in Slovenia; and embodied memory and emotion in relation to the sense of belonging and well-being experienced by a Japanese migrant in Ireland. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)