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Discussions, debates and interviews on all aspects of the politics of migration.
Migrants Rights Network recently published a report on the extent and nature of immigration raids in the UK. This episode interviews two of...
What role do memories play in displacement? Are memories political? In this episode, we discuss questions of memory, war, exile and building...
In this episode: Guy Aitchison, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University https://www.lboro.ac.uk/sub...
Perhaps one of the most contentious questions within debates around migration is how the movement of people across international borders aff...
The Danish parliament has voted in favour of seeking bilateral agreements with third countries to process and protect asylum seekers there i...
EU citizens in the UK had to apply for settled status by the end of June. What does this entail and what happened to those who failed to do...
The UK government has published the New Plan for Immigration policy paper and a consultation period ran from late March to early May. The po...
In 2017, Dina Nayeri, an American-Iranian author, wrote an article for the Guardian with the title ‘The ungrateful refugee: We have no debt...
Every year, people die trying to reach safety and a better future in a different country. But how many and who they are has been mostly unkn...
The UNHCR plays a critical role in the protection of refugees. Yet while the UNHCR seeks to pressure states into providing aid and protectio...
In her new book, No Refuge, Serena Parekh describes what she calls the second refugee. This crisis means that the vast majority of refugees...
Covid-19 has presented challenges for everyone, but some people are more affected than others. People with disabilities have not been able t...
Many people believe that some or all immigration laws are unjust. Does that imply that citizens and migrants don’t have to obey those laws?...
Professor David Owen, University of Southampton, talks about his latest book: What Do We Owe to Refugees? https://www.southampton.ac.uk/poli...
The Coronavirus pandemic has led to restrictions on movement for everyone. How has the politics and policy of migration and asylum in Europe...
What role does colonialism play in contemporary asylum and migration politics? Do European asylum and migration policies reflect colonial po...
One of the key policy goals of President Trump has been to curb migration from Mexico. But how is this received at the Mexican end? What pol...
The Refugee Convention classes anyone as a refugee who fears persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a parti...
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was adopted at the end of 2018. Will is safeguard migrants' human rights, or unde...
This episode was recorded last week with volunteers and researchers working on Samos. They tell about dreadful conditions, a third sector fi...
There are many calls for reforming the way the world protects, or fails to protect, refugees. Some have suggested that the UN Refugee Conven...
The images of children in cages, separated from their parents, at the US-Mexico border have upset people across the world. Part of a so call...
Public and policy debates about immigration in most parts of the world are pursued on the assumption that states have the right to exclude i...
Many people express and urge others to stand in solidarity with refugees. In 2016, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke about the 65 m...
If you have worked for a Western military in places such as Afghanistan or Iraq, you may think that you would be able to settle in the Weste...
No one will have missed the royal wedding between American actress Meghan Markle and Prince Harry happening this week. Markle has moved to t...
Migration policy-makers tend to portray the migrant smuggler as their main enemy. Not only do they help facilitate irregular migration, but...
When we talk, write and research about migration, do we see like a nation? Would we approach issues differently, and ask different questions...
When we talk about migration, we assume the existence of borders. But what are borders? And should there be any? This is the topic of this e...
In September 2015, the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, King Abdullah of Jordan and David Cameron, then Prime Minister of the UK,...
Ahmad al-Rashid came to the UK from Syria in 2015. The journey took 55 days and was partly documented in the BBC documentary Exodus: Our Jou...
Our world order is organised around sovereign states and each human being is meant to belong to at least one state where they are a citizen....
Restrictions on immigration, as well as certain integration policies, are sometimes justified on the basis that too much, or a certain kind...
Has the debate on immigration been damaged by people too easily resorting to calling out racism? Or is it precisely racism that is at the he...
Apologies for the poor sound quality of this episode. In 1987 Joseph Carens, Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, University...
One of the ways that refugees have tried to make it to Europe is through the so called 'Balkan route'. Yet as EU and European leaders have t...
Political theorists have long debated the question of open borders. Do states have a right to exclude migrants from their territory? Is ther...
Italy is one of the key destinations for migrants coming to Europe, with many coming by boat from Libya. Now Italy is threatening to close i...
In 2015, a large number of refugees came to Europe in what has come to be referred to as a European refugee 'crisis'. Now, some of the focus...
We are told that we are currently witnessing the biggest refugee crisis sine World War Two and that the average stay in refugee camps is 17...
Canada is often the country everyone looks to for inspiration when it comes to immigration. Why? Daniel Hiebert is Professor of Geography at...
In a recent special issue of the open access journal Comparative Migration Studies, Will Kymlicka, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Po...
In this episode, we speak to Dr Marcia Vera Espinoza, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, and Esteban Sanchez Bo...
10. What's wrong with ethnic discrimination in immigration policy? by Talking Migration
In this episode, we speak to Professor Keith Banting, Queen’s Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor in the Department of Political S...
After a summer break, we're back talking to Professor Ruth Wodak, The University of Lancaster and the University of Vienna, about her new bo...
In the aftermath of the EU referendum in the UK, in which the British population voted to leave, we discuss the prominence of immigration in...
This episode was recorded ad the British International Studies Association's Annual Conference in Edinburgh. We hear short versions of three...
In this EU-special we talk to Andy Mycock, Reader in Politics at the University of Huddersfield, about the role of identity and immigration...
In this episode, Professor Tariq Modood talks about his new edited book Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: debating the dividing lines a...