Infrastructuring Nature as Border Technique

This research project aims to contribute to the broader field of forced migration studies by focusing on the relationship between nature, border regimes, and the movement of displaced populations. We will investigate how nature is incorporated by regimes of control and how in turn, nature influences these regimes. This interplay comes to constitute a range of inhospitable landscapes for displaced people. In close collaboration with local knowledge producers and non-academic research partners, we map out inhospitable landscapes that displaced populations move through. Moreover, we will study three distinct border landscapes ethnographically.

Funding: Gerda Henkel Foundation