Introduction -- Part 1 : Exploring borderlands -- An insider approach -- Prejudice and poverty -- Living stories : in their own words -- Borderlands in a political economy -- Part 2 : Education -- The perils of rehabilitation -- Work -- Part 3 : Social life outside, inside, and across borders -- Constructing blindness -- Being blind: from the inside out -- Identity -- Part 4 : Conclusion -- Intersections along the border -- Epilogue.