Talking Migration

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’. Last year, she published the book ‘The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You’, which tells her own and several other refugees’ stories while exploring themes of refugee life.

In this episode: Dina Nayeri http://www.dinanayeri.com/

Book: The Ungrateful Refuge https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-ungrateful-refugee/dina-nayeri/9781786893499

Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee

Charities:

Refugee Support https://www.refugeesupport.eu/

Freedom From Torture https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/

SecondTree https://secondtree.org/

HostNation https://www.hostnation.org.uk/

RAID(Rights and Accountability in Development)https://www.raid-uk.org/

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 Missing Migrants Project, run by IOM, has started to collect data on who the people are who have lost their lives while migrating.

In this episode: Kate Dearden, Project Officer

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/

Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester

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 refugees, it is also funded by states. What does this tension mean? How has the role of the UNHCR changed and how does it brand itself?

In this episode: Jeff Crisp, Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/jeff-crisp-1

Work mentioned: https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/26/3/article-p359_1.xml

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 find safety or conditions for a life with dignity. Parekh argues that this amounts to a structural injustice and she joins this episode to discuss her book.

In this episode: Serena Parekh, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/serena-parekh/

Book discussed: No Refuge https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-refuge-9780197507995?cc=us&lang=en&#

Covid-19 has presented challenges for everyone, but some people are more affected than others. People with disabilities have not been able to socially distance to the extent that others can, and trying to do so may come with extra costs. For disabled asylum seekers, who in the UK are prevented from working and earning a living, this presents additional and significant challenges.

In this episode: Dickson Tarnongo, PhD student in Law, Leicester University, Disability Rights and Citizenship

Tarnongo's article on asylum, disability and covid-19: https://www.migrantvoice.org/archive/the-plight-of-asylum-seekers-200820100823

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 us even have a duty to resist them? Is it possible to believe that migrants don’t have to comply with immigration laws even if you think states have a right to exclude immigrants?

In this episode:

Matthew Lister, Senior Lecturer in Deakin Law School: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/matthew-lister

Selected works:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phc3.12653

https://philarchive.org/rec/LISDAO

Javier Hidalgo, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond: https://jepson.richmond.edu/faculty/bios/jhidalgo/

Selected works:

https://philarchive.org/archive/HIDRTU

https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mopp/3/2/article-p165.xml

Professor David Owen, University of Southampton, talks about his latest book: What Do We Owe to Refugees?

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/about/staff/dowen.page

To get the book: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/What+Do+We+Owe+to+Refugees%3F-p-9781509539741

Talking Migration is supported by the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield and produced by Clara Sandelind ([email protected]).

Twitter: @talkingmig

The Coronavirus pandemic has led to restrictions on movement for everyone. How has the politics and policy of migration and asylum in Europe been affected? What might the long-term impact on Europe’s asylum policy be?

In this episode:

Catherine Woollard, Secretary General of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles: www.ecre.org

ECRE’s informationsheet on Covid-19: https://www.ecre.org/information-sheet-23-april-2020covid-19-measures-related-to-asylum-and-migration-across-europe/

Talking Migration is supported by the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield and produced by Clara Sandelind. Twitter: @talkingmig

What role does colonialism play in contemporary asylum and migration politics? Do European asylum and migration policies reflect colonial power relations, or is colonialism something that exits in the past whilst different logics govern contemporary migration policies? And can the link between colonialism and asylum and migration even tell us something about Brexit?

In this episode:

Lucy Mayblin, Senior Leturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. This episode is particularly focused on Mayblin's book

Asylum After Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/lucy-mayblin#tab00

https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/asylum_after_empire/3-156-969ab234-2088-42e2-b8f0-bfa6042ac19b

Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/27518

http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71299/

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 actually been agreed with, or imposed on, Mexico by the Trump administration?

In this episode:

Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy. Find more information about Carlsen's work here:

https://www.internationalpolicy.org/laura-carlsen

https://www.americas.org/people/

https://www.americas.org/category/migration/

The podcast is supported by the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.