Nationality and ethnicity in the Triple North Frontier

Abstract

This paper intends to analyse the relationship between nationality and ethnicity at the northern Brazilian border, precisely in the region of the three State borders among Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. This area has been marked by tensions, not only by the actions of the narcotic-traffickers or by a possible partisans from trespassing the Colombian Revolutionary Force- FARC, but also by the entry of clandestine Peruvian immigrants or the Colombian refugees who run away from the violence stimulated by guerrilla and by paramilitaries groups from that country. Through observations in loco and interviews realized with different subjects that compose that scenery, I pretend to reveal the multiple relations established among them, as well its meanings.