Talking Migration
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Talking Migration
Discussions, debates and interviews on all aspects of the politics of migration. Supported by the University of Manchester Contact: clara.sandelind@manchester.ac.uk
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53 episodi53: Are immigration raids racist kidnappings?
Migrants Rights Network recently published a report on the extent and nature of immigration raids in the UK. This episode interviews two of its co-aut...
52. What role does memory play in exile?
What role do memories play in displacement? Are memories political? In this episode, we discuss questions of memory, war, exile and building a new hom...
51. Is the government responsible for self-harm in detention centres?
In this episode: Guy Aitchison, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/poli...
50. What do we know about immigration and crime?
Perhaps one of the most contentious questions within debates around migration is how the movement of people across international borders affect levels...
49. Can asylum be externalized?
The Danish parliament has voted in favour of seeking bilateral agreements with third countries to process and protect asylum seekers there instead of...
48. What rights do EU citizens have in the UK?
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 so? Why ar...
47. What's the UK new plan for immigration?
The UK government has published the New Plan for Immigration policy paper and a consultation period ran from late March to early May. The policy paper...
46: Should refugees be grateful?
In 2017, Dina Nayeri, an American-Iranian author, wrote an article for the Guardian with the title ‘The ungrateful refugee: We have no debt to repay’....
45: Why do migrants go missing?
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 unknown. The M...
44. What's the role of the UNHCR?
The UNHCR plays a critical role in the protection of refugees. Yet while the UNHCR seeks to pressure states into providing aid and protection to refug...
43. What is the second refugee crisis?
In her new book, No Refuge, Serena Parekh describes what she calls the second refugee. This crisis means that the vast majority of refugees cannot fin...
42. How is Covid-19 affecting disabled asylum seekers?
Covid-19 has presented challenges for everyone, but some people are more affected than others. People with disabilities have not been able to socially...
41. Must immigration laws be obeyed?
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? Do some of...
40. What do we owe to refugees?
Professor David Owen, University of Southampton, talks about his latest book: What Do We Owe to Refugees?
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39. How has the pandemic affected migrants and refugees?
The Coronavirus pandemic has led to restrictions on movement for everyone. How has the politics and policy of migration and asylum in Europe been aff...
38. Is there a link between colonialism, asylum and Brexit?
What role does colonialism play in contemporary asylum and migration politics? Do European asylum and migration policies reflect colonial power relati...
37. What's the state of migration policy in Mexico?
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 policies have...
36. What injustices do LGBTQ+ asylum seekers face?
The Refugee Convention classes anyone as a refugee who fears persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular soci...
35. What is the Global Compact for Migration?
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was adopted at the end of 2018. Will is safeguard migrants' human rights, or undermine stat...
34. What's it like for refugees on Samos?
This episode was recorded last week with volunteers and researchers working on Samos. They tell about dreadful conditions, a third sector filling gove...
33. Is there a global solution to refugee protection?
There are many calls for reforming the way the world protects, or fails to protect, refugees. Some have suggested that the UN Refugee Convention is ou...
32. Why are families being separated at the US-Mexico border?
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 called 'zero-t...
31. Do states have a right to exclude immigrants?
Public and policy debates about immigration in most parts of the world are pursued on the assumption that states have the right to exclude immigrants,...
30. What does it mean to be in solidarity with refugees?
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 million for...
29. Why don't Afghan interpreters get to stay?
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 Western country...
28. What does the royal wedding (not) tell us about the UK family migration regime?
No one will have missed the royal wedding between American actress Meghan Markle and Prince Harry happening this week. Markle has moved to the UK is e...
27. What do we know about migrant smuggling at the US-Mexico border?
Migration policy-makers tend to portray the migrant smuggler as their main enemy. Not only do they help facilitate irregular migration, but they are a...
26. Are we biased by methodological nationalism?
When we talk, write and research about migration, do we see like a nation? Would we approach issues differently, and ask different questions, if inste...
25. Should there be no borders?
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 episode wit...
24. Can Jordan and Lebanon create jobs for refugees?
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, met to dis...
23. How do you support refugees?
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 Journey. Sinc...
22. What does it mean to be stateless?
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. Yet accor...
21. Is immigration bad for social cohesion?
Restrictions on immigration, as well as certain integration policies, are sometimes justified on the basis that too much, or a certain kind of, immigr...
20. Who is a racist?
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 heart of hos...
19. Should migration scholars be realistic or idealistic? (Poor sound quality)
Apologies for the poor sound quality of this episode.
In 1987 Joseph Carens, Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, University of...
18. Is there a way through the Balkan route?
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 tried to sh...
17. Is immigration control bad for everyone's freedom?
Political theorists have long debated the question of open borders. Do states have a right to exclude migrants from their territory? Is there a human...
16. Is Italy closing its ports for migrants?
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 its ports t...
15. Who came during the 2015 European refugee 'crisis'?
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 has shift...
14. What do we really know about refugees?
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 years. But...