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"Home"work

With the concept of border, migration, and identity in mind,  the defeinition of "Home" become a major concern for the tribal members that had moved all the way from the eastern Taiwan to Hsin

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Poetry and scientific text

Johanna Storz

What I find really noteworthy in this text is how Julia Watts Belser takes the poem by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and includes it into a scientific text. In this way, she not only allows an affected person to have her say, the poem also leaves the reader with a very striking image of the connection between the river and the body, in multiple ways, as well as the connection between enviromental harm and disability.