{
  "id": "outsiders-coming-in.crossing",
  "term": "outsiders coming in",
  "sense": "crossing",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 17,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A collective self that reads those crossing into its place as outside its boundary, and their coming as moving its walls.",
  "folk_gloss": "newcomers arriving in a community, described as a change to it",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "cross.pass",
      "come.arrive",
      "motion.movement",
      "out-group.outside",
      "fear.nearing-wall",
      "read.information",
      "space.extent",
      "outside.spatial",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "The crossing of a place's edge is read as the crossing of the group's edge, so arrival is modelled as others setting the group's walls, a report near fear.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "arrival read as a wall moving",
      "place boundary and group boundary made one"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "nation-of-immigrants.arrival",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the inverse reading of the same crossing"
    },
    {
      "id": "locals-only.closed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "locals only is a rule against the crossing; outsiders coming in is the report of it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "outsiders coming in",
    "outsiders moving in",
    "people coming in"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outsiders-coming-in.crossing"
}