Steven Rubin’s poignant photo-documentary offers a glimpse of the lives of Burmese Chin refugees, an ethnic minority who have fled Burma in search of protection and security in the neighboring northeast Indian state of Mizoram, only to encounter additional hardships and challenges across the border. For an estimated 100,000 Chin in Mizoram there is no international or governmental aid – nor have they received the media attention and academic scrutiny focused on refugees along Burma’s other borders.

Steven Rubin is an Associate Professor in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University.

Borderline Existence is on display on the first floor of Mann Library November 28-December 11, 2015. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program, the Cornell South Asia Program, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Mann Library.