Borders in a Borderless World

“If we really want to know what borders mean to people, then we need to listen to their personal and group narratives. Bringing theses case study narratives together at an aggregate level should help us understand the notions of ‘difference’ and ‘other’ in the real daily lives of people, rather than as abstract sociological constructs.”

This quote is important to the entire article. It helps us understand how the study of borders has progressed. At first being something so physical and now is so physiological in many ways. I chose this because I thought it fit the theme of our class perfectly. It is one thing to talk about borders and study facts. But to actually be able to speak to people and read actual accounts of people makes things much more real. Even reading the Salvation story opened my eyes to things that I didn’t even think about. Its much more effective to actually feel these peoples pain. Rather than just look at statistics.