Borders

Annette Idler sees conflict as a dynamic and shifting phenomenon. From her extensive field work, she has given local officials and civilians tools to prepare for violence before it arrives in their villages. By Michelle Nicholasen This is the second of a...

Over a period of ten years, Annette Idler conducted fieldwork along the volatile borderlands of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador to better understand how life proceeds in a gray zone, where the government has abandoned you, and where the rule of law does...

Historian Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey tells the story of the African migrants who circulated between the Caribbean and the North America in the twentieth century, and how a subset of them built a transnational life, and racial solidarity, along the US...

For Syrian refugees fortunate enough to reach Germany—a model among European countries for its commitment to refugees—the day-to-day realities and the uncertainty of their futures loom large. Third in a series that asks Weatherhead Center affiliates to...

As an ethnographer and an EMT, Harvard anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte has a front-line perspective on tensions at the politically fraught border between Mexico and the United States. Ieva Jusionyte has always been drawn to tensions at the border. As a...

Harvard Professor Lorgia García-Peña returns to her roots to investigate the narratives that shaped a divide. The border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic forces a conspicuous dividing line between black and non-black, respectively. How the island...

Harvard historian Charles Maier explores the boundaries that separate and bind societies throughout modern history. To read Charles Maier’s latest book, Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging Since 1500, is to take a bird’s-eye...