The Migrant Crisis: Imaginary Lines, Fluid Borders Hyperallergic On Paris’s Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (National Museum of the History of Immigration) and its exhibition Frontières (Borders): “‘Borders are imaginary lines,’ explains Shahab Rassouli in a video interview, one of many with immigrants of recent and long standing. Frontières explores the elusive, forbidding, promising zones called borders, not to entrench them, but to shatter the illusion of their inevitability.” Back to Essays & Stories Photo: Diadji Diop’s sculpture, “Dans le bonheur” (2009)