Sojourners

Gurman is the author of “The Politics of Armenian Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire: Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens” (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

He was a member of the King Solomon Lodge in Somerville, the Couer de Lion Commandry, the Orient Council, the Misfit Chapter, the Sojourners Lodge and Demolay.

As investigation gives way to familiarity and then familiarity gives way to nonchalant expertise, mastering a new neighborhood’s supermarket options is reassuring proof that we’re inhabitants, not sojourners.

I agree—but we still must have some means of regulating how many "sojourners" we allow into the country and who can qualify to enter—and a wall is the most effective way to do this.

Many Nigerians are in jail in foreign countries over crimes that are too infinitesimal to warrant a jail term. Thousands of Nigerian sojourners have been swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea, while scouting for a greener pasture.