Immigrant Lives and the Politics of Olfaction in the Global City

Abstract

The immigrant is a paradigmatic figure of modem alterity. Discourses around epidemics, natural disasters, crime and other catastrophes or social ills are constructed around the body of the immigrant as vector. Moreover, the immigrant body is culturally constructed to be the natural carrier and source of undesirable sensory experiences and is popularly perceived to be the site of polluting and negative olfactory signs.

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