This project explores the personal histories and changing landscapes of the rural California-Baja California borderlands. Immigration policies and border enforcement are frequent topics in the news, but we rarely hear from or about the people who live in this region. It is here where some of the first segments of border wall to stop human passage were erected in the early 1990s, and the region has seen two new iterations of wall and many other major changes since. This research privileges the perspectives of borderlands residents in order to understand the impacts of border fortification on rural communities and ecosystems that span both sides of the political boundary.

You can watch a video I created about representations of the borderlands and the associated impacts of border fortification here.