Borders and belonging

Whose Century Is It?
Berlin Wall remnant at Bernhardstrasse, where the wall once ran down the middle of a street

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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