My CBRL Travel Grant enabled me to undertake archival research in Jerusalem and Israel, which allowed me to development my current research project into one on borders, borderlands, the frontier and frontier and border controls in Mandate Palestine. It analyses the ways in which, during the interwar period, the frontier and borders were subverted and transgressed by mobile Arab, Jewish and European migrants, and how smuggling networks developed. I have been able to uncover, in detail, records on frontier control, immigration protocol, documentary regimes and smuggling networks in the Mandate. I made use of the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Municipality Archives and Haifa City Archive. I was also able to use the digitalized Israel State Archive records, and receive files from this archive. These sources provided a large amount of material on borders and frontiers (and the policing of these spaces), illegal migrants, forged passports and subversive entries into Mandate Palestine.
I stayed at the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem, where I benefitted greatly from their hospitality. I am always happy to use this CBRL facility, particularly its library and research space.