Centering the Margin, Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands by Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley

Book review of Centering the Margin, Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley (eds.) (2006) Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford, (ISBN 1-84545-019-1, hardcover). Asian migration experiences within Asia are often neglected in the European and North American literature for various reasons. This compilation of papers, mainly based on the ICAS Conference papers, brings us a wealth of studies on Southeast Asian experiences at the borders. The agency perspective adapted in this volume in the analysis of borders and border crossings warrants a reconceptualisation of the nation and nation-state in the region. It reveals how fluid the borders in Southeast Asia