Nationalization of Dominican Borderlands

HT HE borderlands between two emerging states tend historically to be zones of cultural overlap and political instability where the national identity and loyalties of the people often become blurred. In the absence of a sharply defined international boundary and an effective political control by the central governments, the frontier provides an excellent opportunity for interpenetration and sway.' Border populations are little concerned with jurisdictional limits; residents work out intimate economic and social reciprocity with their neighbors in the adjoining country; and the ties that bind them to compatriots in their national core areas are often