Borders and belonging

Whose Century Is It?October 21, 2016

Berlin Wall remnant at Bernhardstrasse, where the wall once ran down the middle of a street — Mary Kay Magistad

Few issues hit more of an emotional chord, or an emotional nerve than those around borders and belonging, immigration and identity. Bringing it home in this third of a three-episode series on these issues, host Mary Kay Magistad visits the lands of her ancestors — Ireland and Germany — and explores the ways in which they are wrestling with these issues — and have wrestled with them in the past.

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