What is a family, and under what conditions can its members live a life together, abroad? 
In this episode, we look at family reunification policy in Brazil. Amanda Paz Alencar speaks to Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli about her research on family reunification policy in Brazil, and about the efforts of different groups of refugees to claim their right to live with family members. 

Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is currently a Social Science Research Fellow in Conflict and Migration at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (UCL). Prior to this, Patricia was a Visiting Scholar at the Carolina Population Center (2017-2018), at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development (2018-2019) and a ZUKOnnect Fellow at the University of Konstanz (2019). Patrícia is interested in investigating the changes in family-reunification policies in Brazil since 1997. Her project, titled "The Family Reunification Policy for refugees in Brazil", aims to improve the understanding of best practices and challenges in family reunification procedures for refugees in Brazil. Her research interests involve asylum and migration politics in Latin America, family reunification of refugees, refugee children, and refugees and COVID-19 in Brazil. 

Learn more about Patricia here: https://sites.google.com/view/patricia-martuscelli 

Amanda Paz Alencar recently joined The Migration Podcast Team. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Episode 2 (S2) Patricia N. Martuscelli on refugees mobilizing for family reunification in Brazil

In April 2019, a year before we launched The Migration Podcast, I sat down for an interview with Nina Glick Schiller in New York.  New York is the city where Nina had based her PhD project on Haitian immigrants, a project that laid the foundation for the book “Nations Unbound”. 
The book, co-authored by Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc, would deeply impact how we think about migrant’s social, political and economic ties across national borders. 

In this episode, Nina recounts how the idea for Nations Unbound germinated, we spoke about her intellectual project throughout the years, and about how she carved out a career in academia from the margins.

Nina Glick Schiller is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and was the Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute at the University of Manchester. She continues to be active with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. 

Nina published her latest book together with Ayse Çaglar in 2018:  "Migrants and City Making: Dispossession, Displacement and Urban Regeneration" Duke University Press. The book can be downloaded for free here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25763 

Learn more about Nina here: https://www.eth.mpg.de/schiller
or visit her profile on academia.edu: https://manchester.academia.edu/NinaGlickSchiller

Episode 5 (S2): Nina Glick Schiller on conceiving 'migrant transnationalism'

In this episode, our guest Sverre Molland takes a critical look at two themes that have prominently structured humanitarian aid and funding: human trafficking and safe migration. With Jamie, he speaks about how one discourse increasingly gives way to the other, and what that might have to do with the politics of migration.

Want to know more about Sverre? Check out his website: https://www.sverremolland.com/about

Sverre Molland's book "Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia" (2021, Routledge) is available Open Access at Taylor & Francis. This is the link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003185734/safe-migration-politics-brokered-safety-southeast-asia-sverre-molland

This is the last episode of our second season and after a short break we will be back with new guests speaking about their research. We hope you will tune into Season 3.

Episode 10 (S2): Sverre Molland takes a critical look at "safe migration"

This a special crossover episode between the Migration Podcast and the Culture and Inequality Podcast. The first in a series of three, this episode investigates how Music and Social Media matter in Migration (and vice-versa). Our guests are Daniela Jaramillo-Dent and Marco Martiniello. The episode is hosted by Julian Schaap.

For centuries, music has been a powerful source of individual and social well-being, something which studies from psychology to sociology to medicine continue to demonstrate. As people migrated, music migrated with them – causing the rapid and continuing spread of hundreds of music genres in countries across the globe. Since digitalization, music has become more mobile than ever before, as people can connect with their favorite music as long as they have an internet connection. This leads us to ask: How do migrants in the 21st century use music during processes of migration? To talk about this, Julian Schaap (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) has invited Daniela Jaramillo Dent (Universidad de Huelva, Spain and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Marco Martiniello (Université de Liège, Belgium).

Are you interested in hearing more episodes by The Culture & Inequality Podcast? You can find them here: https://eucci.eu/podcast/
And on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6BGJkiCyIFxeJFX9uN7tSw

Special Episode (1): Music, Social Media and Migration

To kickstart our new series of episodes, we invited Steven Vertovec to speak about ways of studying and understanding one of the consequences of migration, that is social complexity. 
Around 2007, Steve coined the concept 'super-diversity' to grasp the increasing diversity within migrant populations in British society, highlighting that this diversification should not merely be understood  in terms of ethnic, linguistic or religious backgrounds. Occurring at the same time was a diversification of migration channels, legal statuses and conditions, gender, age and forms of human capital. 

Yet, before arriving at this concept, Steven Vertovec explored and critiqued other concepts such as transnationalism, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism. In this episode, he retraces his intellectual project and tells us how he eventually arrived at 'super-diversity'. 

This is the link to the article that created excitement among migration scholars: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870701599465 

His forthcoming book with Routledge "Super-diversity. Migration and Social Complexity" will be available Open Access in late 2022 [we will update the link here, once the book is out].

Episode 1 (S3): Steven Vertovec on understanding Social Complexity

This is the final episode of our podcast crossover trilogy.

Migration has been a characteristic of societies for centuries. Humans have always migrated to either escape harsh lives, or in search for better ones, or both. Continuing immigration flows and increasing diversity in many societies have led to more complex processes of belonging and integration, as well as the emergence of cross-border engagements of migrants, organizations and institutions. 
In this episode, we focus on the role played by media and communication in the different aspects of migration, ranging from media representations of migrants to the mediated communication exchanges conducted in digital spaces, from interactions between relevant stakeholders in the different levels of migration governance through the political and economic side of migrants’ lives to the role played by hands-on intercultural mediation and digital solidarity projects. 

To talk about these topics, Amanda Paz Alencar (Dept. of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam) invited Myria Georgiou (Dept. of Media and Communications, London School of Economics) and Earvin Cabalquinto (School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University) – experts on the topic of media and migration.

Would you like to learn more about Amanda's work? Follow this link: https://www.eur.nl/people/amanda-paz-alencar

Would you like to learn more about Myria's work? Follow this link: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/myria-georgiou 

Are you interested in learning more about Earvin's work? Follow this link: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/earvin-cabalquinto

Special Episode (3): Migration and Media

People do not only migrate across borders. Very often, they move within countries.  Our guest Gediminas Lesutis spoke to Jolynna Sinanan about the displacement and resettlement of small-scale farmers because of mining activities in Mozambique, and how these farmers cope with the ensuing changes to their lives.

Gediminas Lesutis is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Geography, Urban Planning, and International Development Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. 
Learn more about Gediminas here: https://www.gediminaslesutis.com/about
Are you interested in purchasing his book? This is the link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Precarity-Spaces-of-Extractivism-Violence-and-Suffering/Lesutis/p/book/9781032014227?utm_source=individuals&utm_medium=shared_link&utm_campaign=B021435_eh1_1au_7pp_d876

Episode 4 (S3): Gediminas Lesutis on how farmers cope with displacement in Mozambique

Our guest today is Viktoria Sereda, a Ukrainian scholar whose research expertise straddles the formation of sociopolitical identity, cross-regional mobility, as well as internal and international displacement of Ukrainians following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Our associate producer, Asya Pisarevskaya, speaks with Viktoria about researching forced displacement as her home country has come under attack.

Viktoria Sereda is a fellow of the Forum of Transregional Studies in Berlin, a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Her book "Displacement in war-torn Ukraine: State, dislocation, and belonging" is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

Episode 6 (S3):Viktoria Sereda about Ukrainian displacement since 2014

In this episode Amanda Alencar speaks to Ayham Dalal about how refugees living in camps adapt the space around them to fit their needs.  

Ayham Dalal is an urban planner and architect specialised in the field of Forced Migration. He is the author of the book “From Shelters to Dwellings: The Zaatari Refugee Camp” published by Transcript Verlag (2022). He has been a research fellow at the Refugee Studies Center in Oxford University, the CRC “Re-Figurations of Space” at TU Berlin, and CNRS in France. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the Architecture and Urban Design at the German University in Cairo.

More information on Ayham and about the film mentioned in this episode can be found here: https://www.ayhamdalal.com/about/

Ep.2 (S4): Ayham Dalal about Refugees as Architects

Natalie Brinham talks about the rich field of statelessness studies, how survivors of state crime disrupt dominant discourse around “legal identity”, and her experience of conducting qualitative research with Rohingya in the wake of the genocide in 2017. 

At that time, she was set to carry-out fieldwork for her PhD, but instead, took a bold step back, and changed her plans to enable a more ethical research process. She says: “when trauma is so fresh and widespread traditional research can sometimes do more harm than good.”

The interview was conducted by Samanwita Paul.

Dr Natalie Brinham (aka Alice Cowley) is a genocide and state crime scholar. She is coauthor (with Zarni) of the 2014 study titled ‘The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya.’ She has worked for many years in NGOs in the U.K. and Southeast Asia on forced migration, trafficking and statelessness in both frontline service provision roles and research and advocacy roles. She has published policy papers, academic articles, and opeds on statelessness, legal identities and genocide. She completed her PhD in legal studies at Queen Mary University of London in 2022. Understanding genocide as a sociological process, her doctoral thesis explores the central role of state identification schemes in Myanmar’s genocide, from enabling systems of segregation and institutionalised discrimination, to the physical destruction of the group, to identity destruction and the reorganisation of national identities and power relations. Drawing on Rohingya oral histories and narratives relating to their ID cards, the research considers how survivors of state crime disrupt international discourses on statelessness and legal identities for all.  In October 2023, Dr Natalie Brinham will begin an ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship at Migration Mobilities Bristol at the University of Bristol.

Ep.4 (S4): Natalie Brinham On Statelessness And Research Ethics

* Applications for the 2024 IMISCOE PhD School in Lancashire are open. Apply here before November 26th : https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6786/submitter
More information is available on the IMISCOE website: https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/1875-2023-imiscoe-phd-school-2 *

In this episode, Larisa Ozeryansky  speaks to Dr. Bernadette Nirmal Kumar, expert in migration and health, about her career trajectory from working in medicine, to public health policy and pursuing academic research. She talks about how her personal experience of being a migrant has motivated and informed her research and its outputs, and the professional benefits of having a specialization as well as experience in different sectors. 

Bernadette Nirmal Kumar is a trained medical doctor originally from India. After many years of working for international organizations, she turned to research, and specifically to the topic of migrant health. Among other roles, Dr. Kumar is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Co-chair of Lancet Migration Europe.

Larisa Ozeryansky is a PhD Candidate (University of Washington) and Fulbright scholar in Norway researching refugee health with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Her current Fulbright-Norway project is the design and facilitation of a participatory-media workshop/film for Oslo-based youth who arrived to Norway as refugees within the last two years. This project will apply Participatory Art Based Research (PABR), time and physical activity in nature, and digital media education, all with a trauma-informed, healing-centered and equity-based approach, to explore concepts of belonging, identity, and sense-of-place.

Ep.5 (S4): Bernadette Kumar speaks about fostering a career across disciplines & sectors

Russell King has been teaching and researching the topic of migration for more than 50 years. In this episode, he is interviewed by Sara Hannafin about thinking beyond the dominate frameworks of how and why people migrate. 

This ambition has led him to study return migration, retirement migration, student migration, and most recently, migration motivated by love. He also reflects on working with, and being inspired by, his students over the past decades.

Russell King is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex in the UK and visiting professor in Migration Studies at Malmo University in Sweden. At Sussex, he founded the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, the MA and PhD programs in migration studies, and was the editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies from 2001 to 2013. 

If you enjoy the Migration Podcast, please consider “liking” and “following” us. Thank you for listening!

Ep.6 (S4): Russell King on researching how and why people migrate, for over 50 years

In this episode, Yixin Zhang interviews Biao Xiang, about how analyzing processes of control over mobility and immobility can help explain the different consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan and Shanghai, in China. 

This research is from Professor Xiang’s latest paper, called, “Logistical Power and Logistical Violence”. It was recently published in the Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies.
Here is the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24761028.2023.2285022

The paper is available Open Access.

Biao Xiang is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, in Halle, Germany. There, he also leads the “Mo lab”, which is dedicated to migration and mobility studies. The lab addresses questions around human experiences and perceptions of mobility, including how social resources, such as human emotions and commitment are organized and distributed. The lab also seeks to prioritize issues that migrants themselves are concerned with, for instance, attachment and sacrifice.

Yixin Zhang is a PhD student at the Population Research Center, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include migrants' community participation, social integration, internal migrants in China, and social capital.

Ep.7 (S4): Biao Xiang On Logistical Power and the constraint of Mobility

“Theoretical categories that we have had from this emphasis on South North have to be rethought, or maybe we need innovation and new categories to be introduced.”

In this episode, Roos Derrix chats with Gerasimos Tsourapas and Kamal Sadiq about their latest project on the politics of South-South labour migration, and the development of a transnational social contract between states and their migrant populations.
They explain how, in the context of labour migration to the Gulf Cooperation Council states, migrant agency is curtailed through surveillance and labour commodification, while novel forms of dependence are created between countries of origin and destination. Gerasimos and Kamal argue that innovative methods and further work on postcolonial migration states are needed to further untangle and to understand these practices.


Kamal Sadiq is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Gerasimos Tsourapas is a Professor of International Relations in the School of social and political sciences at the University of Glasgow.

Are you interested in reading Kamal and Gerasimos work? Look at these:

Malit, F. T. and Tsourapas, G. (2021) Migration diplomacy in the Gulf – non-state actors, cross border mobility, and the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(11), pp. 2556-2577. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1878875) 

Malit, F. T. and Tsourapas, G. (2021) Weapons of the weak? South-south migration and power politics in the Philippines-GCC corridor. Global Studies Quarterly, 1(3), ksab010. (doi: 10.1093/ isagsq/ksab010)

Sadiq, K., & Tsourapas, G. (2021). The postcolonial migration state. European Journal of International Relations, 
27(3), 884-912. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661211000114

Sadiq, K., & Tsourapas, G. (2023). The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South. International Studies Quarterly, 67(4), sqad088. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad088

Sadiq, K., & Tsourapas, G. (2023). Labour coercion and commodification: 
from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269778

Tsourapas, G. (2021) Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9781526132093 

Tsourapas, G. (2020) The long arm of the Arab state. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(2), pp. 351-370. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1585558) 


The research behind this interview was funded by the UK Research and Innovation (grant reference no. EP/X019667/1)


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Ep.11 (S4): G.Tsourapas & K.Sadiq on the transnational social contract in the Global South

“There's a total contradiction between irregularity and child protection…not doing anything, or rather the opposite, blocking the access to a resident permit is a children's rights violation, in my opinion,  because it leads to vulnerability, it leads to some kind of protection issues, social exclusion, and so on.”

In this episode, we hear Alexandra Castro talk with Pablo Ceriani about the increasing and changing migration patterns of children across Latin America. Pablo talks about how there has been a general increase in capacity and willingness to deal with migrant child protection in the region; however, he also argues that xenophobia and public narratives that criminalize migrants are influencing new policies and laws and this increases vulnerability for all migrants, including children.

Pablo Ceriani is a lawyer and has a PhD in Human Rights. He is currently the Director of the Master of Migration and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean at the National University of Lanús, in Argentina. He's also a member of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers. 


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Ep.12 (S4): Pablo Ceriani on migrant child protection in Latin America & the Caribbean

Check out the "Migration Talks" podcast and their recent episode on the impact of migration narratives on EU policymaking, just in time before the EP elections this month.

In this episode, the "Migration Talks" team explores how migration narratives shape the upcoming European elections and influence policymaking in Brussels. These narratives are central to discussions and policies across Europe, especially as far-right parties amplify them as security threats for electoral gains. What are the prevailing migration narratives within the EU, and how do they impact the policymaking processes of the European Union? These and more questions will be answered by Florian Trauner, Co-director of BIRMM and Omar Ba who is a community organizer, activist and politician. 

You will find the Migration Talks podcast here: Migration Talks: 
https://birmm.research.vub.be/migration-talks-a-podcast-by-birmm

Introducing: Migration Talks - The Impact Of Migration Narratives On EU Policymaking

“Even the market next to the station was called Warsaw Market.”

In this episode you’ll hear Louise Ryan interview Ivanna Kyliushyk about the situation of Ukrainian migrants in Poland, before and since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. She talks about how NGOs and local governments have stepped forward to provide aid and the urgent need for a long-term strategy to integrate Ukrainians into the economic and political fabric of Polish society. We also hear a bit about her personal experience as a Ukrainian, migrant, and researcher in Poland.

Ivana Kyliushyk is a political scientist and researcher at the Centre for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility, also referred to as CRASH, at Kozminski University in Poland. 
Her current research is on migrant inclusion and political participation, and focuses on Ukrainian and women’s migration.  


If you enjoy the Migration Podcast, please consider liking and following us. Thank you for listening!

Ep.13 (S4): Ivana Kyliushyk speaks about Ukrainian emigration to Poland

While we take a break from our regular programming before our fifth season – we have a special treat for you! We have the honour of offering you an episode from the fantastic podcast "Border & Belonging, a CERC Migration podcast", which is produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University.

The episode is about the rise of digital nomads – how do “digital nomads” disrupt definitions and theories we have about migration and the nation state? From Lisbon, to Chang Mai, to Barbados, what are the impacts of this form of human mobility? What insights do we have from research on this phenomenon?

Are you interested in hearing more Borders & Belonging episodes? This is where you can find them: https://www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/borders-and-belonging/#!accordion-1729180383471-season-3 

Follow the Borders & Belonging podcast here:
X: @cercmigration, host: @maggie_perzyna
LI: Borders & Belonging Podcast, host: Maggie Perzyna
FB: https://www.facebook.com/CERCMigrationFB
IG: @cercmigration

Please stay tuned for the Migration Podcast’s next season! We look forward to bringing you a fresh slate of interviews on the latest migration research starting in the next few months.

REPOST Borders and Belonging: The rise of digital nomads

Welcome back! You’re listening to the first episode of the 5th season of IMISCOE’s Migration Podcast. 

If you’re listening for the first time: IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration, with 69 member institutes and over 1400 scholars from all over the world. And this is the network’s podcast, where we hear migration researchers talk about their latest research and why it matters. 

As in the past seasons, we have an amazing team of interviewers who are migration scholars themselves. And this season, you’ll hear more episodes with them talking to 2 or more researchers who are working on similar themes, together.

The conversation you'll hear is about concepts in migration governance that are often taken for granted – but when you dig a bit deeper, or wider, like the researchers in this episode have done, it’s clear that not everyone has the same idea of what they really mean or their implications in practice. 

You’ll hear Liberty Chee speaking to Eleonora Milazzo, who has been working on what exactly “solidarity” means between European Union Member States when it comes to the asylum system. We may have a sense that so far, it’s been “failing”, but what does solidarity really mean in practice?

Ulrike Bialas also joins the conversation, to talk about her research on how age classification determines the lives of young asylum seekers in Germany. How do they experience this legal focus on age, especially when many do not actually have documents that can prove their dates of birth and may not know them, anyways. 

I also found the practical challenges of conducting their research, that both Elenora and Ulrike talk about, particularly interesting. Just a last note: both of them talk about research to do with migration governance in Europe, and both mention “the Dublin System”. In case you need a refresher: the Dublin System is made up of several procedures that determine responsibility for assessing asylum claims in EU Member States.  

Further readings:
Bialas, Ulrike. 2023. Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Bialas, Ulrike. 2023. "Ambiguous Ages, Ambivalent Youths: How Asylum Seekers in Germany Navigate Age Categorization." Migration Politics 2, no. 1: 003.

Bialas, Ulrike. 2024. "Who is a minor? Age assessments of refugees in Germany and the classificatory multiplicity of the state." Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-23.

Bialas, Ulrike, Johanna M. Lukate, and Steven Vertovec. 2024. "Contested categories in the context of international migration: introduction to the special issue." Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-23.

Milazzo, E. (2024). Refugee Protection and Solidarity. The Duties of EU Member States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/refugee-protection-and-solidarity-9780192885715?cc=be&lang=en&# 


Also have a look at the Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab https://migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/  





Ep.1(S5):Dublin, solidarity and age. How do these factors matter in the EU asylum system?

It’s an exciting time for qualitative research methods these days. Migration scholars are pushing the boundaries of traditional interview techniques, with the aim to amplify the voices of marginalized groups as well as to influence policy and reach wider audiences. In this episode you’ll hear Silindile Mlilo interview two researchers who are using creative and non-traditional research methods.

Isabel Rose Soloaga will talk about the use of participatory research and film through her forthcoming documentary, Growing Up in America: Life After the Taliban. The film is a personal story following two young girls and their family, who were forced to evacuate Kabul after the Taliban rose to power in 2021. Isabel told us: “Everyone has a camera and a platform today through social media, so I think debates on how to use these tools in an ethical way, while inviting people to reach out to their new neighbors -- the key message of my film.”

Ntokozo Yingwana will discuss her use of digital story telling – which I learned is, the growing practice of everyday people using digital tools to tell their stories. In her PhD research project “Queering Sex Work and Mobility in South Africa: How does Migration and mobility Influence Genderded Sexualities in Sex Work? Duh-kozo conducted data collection through a digital storytelling workshop and WhatsApp. She also worked with two of people from her research participant group, who are sex workers, as research assistants.

Isabel Rose Soloaga is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex School of Law, Politics and Sociology in the UK and an Independent Documentary Filmmaker

Ntokozo Yingwana is a Doctoral researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University in South Africa.


Are you interested in reading more?
Yingwana, N. (2024). Sex Work in Africa. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95352-2_83-1.  

Yingwana, N. (2022). Queering Sex Work and Mobility. Anti-Trafficking Review, 19, 66–86. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201222195. 

Vidima, N., Tenga, R., & Yingwana, N. (2022). Reflections on the use of FPAR as a research methodology for sex worker (and key populations) research. Global Public Health, 17(10), 2604–2616. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2110915. 

Life After the Taliban: 
Kabul to California: A Cinematic Exploration of New Beginnings by The Reel Truth https://videoconsortium.org/mag/thereeltruth05 

Watch our short film: 
https://vimeo.com/801454823?share=copy 
After narrowly escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in August 
2021, 21 year old Ali and his family begin a new life in Northern California. 
Growing up in America: Life After the Taliban, is an intimate documentary 
short following one family's journey of building home after war. 
Directed by Isabel Soloaga (https://www.isabelsoloaga.com)
Co-Directed by Najaf Ali Mohammady 
○ Website: https://www.lifeaftertalibandoc.com 
○ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifeaftertalibdoc 
○ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeaftertalib_doc/ 
○ You can support Isabel's upcoming feature film by donating at 
https://bit.ly/LifeAfterTalib_Doc 






Ep2(S5) How can film and digital storytelling be used in migration research?

In this episode I talk with two researchers about the lives of migrants from Central Asia in Russia, both before, and since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is probably no surprise that this conflict is affecting migrants in Russia, and you’ll hear all about this from the guests in this episode. 
You’ll also hear a bit about the people behind the numbers, when we talk about the millions of migrants from central Asia in Russia, as well as how their lives are shaped by the formal and informal legal constraints in Russian society. Finally, we touch on some intriguing areas of research emerging as a result of the limited access to data in Russia today and that focus on new trends in Central Asian migration.
To discuss all of this, I’m joined by Rustam Urinboyev and Nodira Kholmatova.

Rustam Urinboyev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University in Sweden. His research is on socio-legal approaches to Migration, corruption and informality (among other topics.) He is also the principal investigator of the EU-funded project “MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective”.

Nodira Kholmatova, who works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. She is a sociologist and migration researcher who studies social and gender inequalities in return migration and deportation regimes as well as the impact of migration policies on migrants and their families. Her geographic focus is Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and more recently Western Balkans and Southeast Asia. 
Let’s get into it!

Info for episode description:
Rushtam: https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/rustamjon-urinboyev

1. Urinboyev, R. (2020) Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Available at: https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.96/.
2. Urinboyev, R. and Eraliev, S. (2022) The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes: Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (International Political Economy Series). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99256-9 (Accessed: 20 May 2022).
3. Urinboyev, R. and Pallot, J. (2024) ‘Ethnic and religious identities in Russian penal institutions: A case study of Uzbek Transnational Muslim prisoners’, Open Research Europe, 3(122), pp. 1–35. Available at: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16142.2.
4. Eraliev, S. and Urinboyev, R. (2024) ‘“What have you done, brother Putin?”: Everyday geopolitics and Central Asian labour migration to Russia’, Central Asian Survey, 43(2), pp. 215–234. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2023.2266519.

Nodira: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/h/n.kholmatova/n.kholmatova.html 
Project webpage: https://reintegrateerc.com/nodira-kholmatova/ 
1.Kholmatova, N. (2022). Gender. Introduction: critical appraisal. In R. Isaacs (Ed.), A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies : 40 Years of Central Asian Survey (pp. 139-143). (Central Asian Studies; Vol. 42). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003200338-8
2. Kholmatova, N. (2021). The precarity of transnational migration and the COVID-19 pandemic: addressing female return migration in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. (Policy Brief of the Migration Governance and Agricultural and Rural Change (AGRUMIG) Project]. London, UK: SOAS University of London. 8p. (AGRUMIG Policy Brief Series 3)). European Union Horizon2020 work programme. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131900 
3. Kholmatova, N. (2021). Navigating contradictions : female return migration and social change in Tajikistan, Florence : European University Institute, 2021, EUI, SPS, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72723 

Ep3(S5) Migration & Russia: Understanding the Broader Context and Impacts of the War in Ukraine

Is migrating a risk factor for one’s mental health? Well, sometimes yes, and sometimes no – it depends on the context and perspective. (Of course, “context and perspective” is the simple way of putting it. You’ll hear about some of the complexity behind this, in this episode!) 

You’ll hear Itzel Eguiluz interview Ietza Bojorquez and Sylvia Dantas about their work with migrants in Mexico and Brazil.

In their short conversation, they get to the heart of why treating mental health in multicultural contexts can be so challenging. We hear about the importance of reflexivity – and specifically how the position and cultural backgrounds of practitioners as well as migrants facing mental health difficulties should be taken into consideration. 

It turns out, that in their work trying to improve mental health support for migrants, both Ietza and Sylvia are working to provide better access to the health care for migrants in general, and they talk about why this is a necessary foundational step. 

Ietza Bojorquez is a professor-researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico. She is also working on the Observatorio de Salud y Movilidad en México, and has a background in epidemiology. She works on the topics of migrant mental health, including migrants' access to healthcare and addressing mental health issues among migrants. These days her research mainly focuses on migrants in transit through Mexico and Mexican migrants deported from the United States.

Sylvia Dantas is a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at São Paulo Federal University. She is also the vice-coordinator of the research group “Intercultural Dialogues” at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the same university. Sylvia has a PhD in social psychology, and she focuses on intercultural psychology, psychoanalysis and guidance for organizations and individuals, especially when it comes to migration, prejudice, and ethnic and cultural identities. 
 
Thank you for tuning in!

For more information on Ietza's and Sylvia's work, see below;

From Ietza Bojorquez:
Project name and website: https://observatorios.colef.mx/osymm/
1. Bojorquez-Chapela, Ietza, Leyva-Flores, René, Gomez-López, Diana, Vázquez, Esther K, Cortés-Alcalá, Ricardo (2023).  Forced migration and psychological distress among migrants in transit through Mexico. Salud Pública de México. Publicado en línea 15 de diciembre 2023. https://doi.org/10.21149/14829
2. Bojorquez Ietza, Sepúlveda Jaime, Lee Deandra, Strathdee Steffanie (2022). Interrupted transit and common mental disorders among migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 68(5):1018-1025. doi:10.1177/00207640221099419.
3. Bojorquez, Ietza, Odgers-Ortiz, Olga, Olivas-Hernández, Olga (2021). Psychosocial and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown: A rapid qualitative study in migrant shelters at the Mexico-United States border. Salud Mental, 44(4):167-175. DOI: 10.17711/SM.0185-3325.2021.022
4. Bojorquez, I., Aguilera, R. M., Ramírez, J., Cerecero, D. & Mejía, S. (2015) Common Mental Disorders at the Time of Deportation: A Survey at the Mexico–United States Border. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 17(6):1732-1738. Publicado en línea 14 de agosto de 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s10903-014-0083-y

From Sylvia Dantas
Her new book:
Resignifying Migration and Minorities’ Cultural Contact in Brazil (May 2025), Springer:
Launch event (in Portuguese): June 9, 2025. More information here:
https://www.iea.usp.br/eventos/lancamento-resignifying-migration?fbclid=IwY2xjawKi3DVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4S3JORkZPQXl3cmtWSWtMAR6QZ_r94cli9D_gY0Zr7Ac2TG4jIutnszLaICgSdR3VGlCciMTRw6Tjs6uvkg_aem_ZsVhM7tTDLj4MvKsoDdiJQ


Ep4(S5) Migration and Mental Health: A Look at Latin America

This episode features a conversation recorded live at the IMISCOE annual conference that was hosted in Paris-Auberville in early July.

Submit proposals for the IMISCOE’s Spring Conference in Liège next March, as well as the next annual conference – which will take place in Girona. Check below for more information!

In this episode, you’ll hear Asya Pisarevskaya speak with Andrea Pettrachin and Karolina Łukasiewicz about how cities (and specifically city governments) across Europe respond to migration.

Andrea talks mostly from the research on small and medium-sized towns and rural areas in Europe, and Karoline brings her experience from cities in Central and Eastern Europe. 
This broad view shows how cities vary greatly when it comes to their approach to migration – besides some being more “progressive”, and others being “conservative”, some cities take proactive steps on their own, going above and beyond (or sometimes contrary to) what national governments dictate. While others refuse to implement measures they are legally required do, all together.

Our guests also touch on the differences between the discourse that cities use about migration (i.e. being a very “open” vs. being a more hostile), and how that is not always aligned with what happens in practice.

For me, it was also interesting to hear how cities have shifted from a more practical approach to migration to a more political one, for better or worse. 

Finally, Karoline and Andrea also share recommended actions that cities can take if they want to have inclusive and effective responses to migration.

Andrea Pettrachin is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Padua. He worked on the Horizon 2020 project “WHOLE-COMM: Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective”

Karolina Łukasiewicz is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Migration Research (CMR), which is an interdisciplinary inter-faculty research unit of the University of Warsaw. She worked on the projects: “LOCMIG” - Local welfare system response to migrant poverty. Between innovations and inequality and “MigIntegrEast” - Migrant integration governance in CEE cities post 2015 

I hope you enjoy…!

Info on IMISCOE’s Spring Conference in Liège, and the next annual conference:

IMISCOE Spring Conference in Liège, Belgium (Submission deadline: September 5, 2025):
https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/2393-2026-imiscoe-spring-conference
 
IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona, Spain/Online (Submission deadline: September 25, 2025)
https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/2418-23rd-imiscoe-annual-conference-2026

For more information on Karoline's and Andrea's work, see below;

From Karoline:
LOCMIG Project: https://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/projects/local-welfare-system-response-to-migrant-poverty-between-innovations-and-inequality/
MigIntegrEast: https://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/projects/9569/
1. Łukasiewicz K., Pachocka M. Nowosielski M. Eds. (forthcoming) Migration Governance In Central And Eastern European Cities Post-2015, IMISCOE Springer book Series.  
2. Łukasiewicz, Karolina, Ewa Cichocka, Kamil Matuszczyk, 2024, A missed opportunity: Local welfare systems' responses to marginalized migration in the COVID-19 context, Cities. The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104880 

From Andrea:
WHOLE COMM Project: https://whole-comm.eu/
1. Pettrachin, Andrea (2024) ‘The Multi-Layered Governance of Migration in Italy. Policy Actors, Networks, and the Shaping of the Refugee 'Crisis’’. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 978-3-031-57831
2. Caponio, Tiziana and Andrea Pettrachin (2023). ‘Neither Multilevel Governance Nor Battleground. Understanding the Politics of Immigrant Integration Governance in Small European Localities’. Governance, 1-24, doi: 10.1111/gove.12833. ISSN: 1468-0491

Ep5(S5) How European Cities Respond to Migration

Today you’ll hear Liberty Chee speak with two scholars whose research focuses on musicians who have been displaced from their homelands. 

Rose Campion looks at what the music industry can teach us about migration policy. Her ethnographic research explores how forced migrants from all over the world build their careers as professional musicians in Germany. She talks about how they try to ‘make it’, and how these experiences complicate the perception that “music is a universal language that brings everyone together”.

We also have Louis Brehony, who, starting as a musician and fan, found his way to Palestinian music and the people who make this art both in the MENA region and around the world. He has now researched the topic academically for over a decade. He speaks about how concepts from Palestinian culture translate into music – and how “traditional” sounds and newer evolutions of style are marked by place and migration.

Rose Campion is a PhD student at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (“COMPAS”) in the UK. She studies the creative and social impacts of music-making by forced migrants.

And

Louis Brehony is an activist, musician, educator, and independent scholar who is an expert on Palestinian music. He received his PhD from Kings College London and his book "Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of resistance" is based on 10 years of fieldwork and focuses on Palestinians dispersed in the MENA region. He is also a member of the Gazelleband. 

The music at the end of the episode is the track “Salla Fina al-Lahz”, from the Gazelleband’s EP “Rihla #2”. It was composed by Sayyid Dawish and performed by Gazelleband: https://gazelleband.com/home 

Further reading provided by the interviewees:
1. Campion, Rose and Sheyda Ghavami. (2024). Kurdische Musikerinnen in Deutschland: Ein Song-und Storybook. Landesmusikrat NRW.
2. Louis Brehony, Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance, AUC Press, 2023.
3. Ghassan Kanafani, Selected Political Writings, Pluto Press, 2024.
4. Louis Brehony, “Music and the Gaza Genocide,” Journal of Performance Studies, Summer2025.
5. Louis Brehony, “Exile Songwriters of the Palestinian Revolution (and the Problem with Sugar Man),” Arab Studies Quarterly, Winter 2023.

Louis would like to thank Reem Anbar (oud player with Gazelleband) and Tahrir Hamdi (Co-editor of Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings) for their contributions to the work he speaks about in this episode.



Ep6(S5) Making Resonance: Forced Migrants and Music Across Borders

Whether on billboards, films or other medium, messages from “do not come” to “it is dangerous” are a consistent part of European states’ to discourage irregularised migration from Africa. Yet, evaluations have reported time and time again that such campaigns are not “effective” – if that is even the right question. Why do states keep investing in anti-immigration information campaigns?

In this episode, Silindile Mlilo speaks with Cecilia Schenetti and Rossella Marino to unpack some of the power relations behind the design and implementation of these campaigns, including how migrants themselves are engaged, framed, or co-opted in them. 

We learn that with the many different actors and conflicting motivations involved in these campaigns, migrant information campaigns are full of contradictions and our guests argue that they are central to how border regimes are produced, navigated, and contested. 

Cecilia Schenetti is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University and part of the research group Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development. Cecilia’s PhD research project investigates the production, implementation and reception of migration information campaigns between the Netherlands and Senegal. Before starting her PhD, she worked for an NGO in Senegal in the development and cooperation sector.

and

Rossella Marino has a PhD in Social Work and Social Pedagogy from Ghent University. Her research has revolved around European migration governance in The Gambia, where she has done extended field work. She currently teaches Social Work and Social Pedagogical literature and Comparative Social Work at Ghent university.

Further reading provided by the interviewees:

From Rossella Marino:
1. Marino, R., Schapendonk, J., &amp; Lietaert, I. (2022). Translating EUrope’s Return Migration
Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs. Geopolitics, 28(3), 1033–1056.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2050700
2. Marino, R., Schapendonk, J., &amp; Lietaert, I. (2023). The moral economy of voice within
IOM’s awareness-raising industry: Gambian returnees and Migrants as Messengers.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(6), 1355–1370.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2206001
3. Rossella Marino, Arla Mannersuo, Inês Francisco, Ine Lietaert, At the Crossroads
between Care and Control: A Cross-Country Comparison of Assisted Return, Journal of
Refugee Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 337–358,
https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feac059
4. Marino, Rossella, and Ine Lietaert. &quot;12. The legitimisation of the policy objective of
sustainable reintegration.&quot; Handbook of return migration (2022): 167.

Rossella Marino would like to thank all the returnees who have shared their stories with her and her supervisors, Ine Lietaert and Joris Schapendonk.

From Cecilia Schenetti
1. Schenetti, C., Mazzucato, V., Wyatt, S., &amp; Schans, D. (2025). Navigating contradictions:
justifications and imaginaries of the initiators of European migration information
campaigns. International Migration, 63(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13366
2. Schenetti, C., &amp; Mazzucato, V. (2024). Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal:
local implementers of migration information campaigns. Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies, 50(12), 2803–2821. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2323670
3. Schenetti, C. (in press). The affective registers of migration information campaigns:
Emotional violence and responses from Senegalese youth. Journal of Ethnic and Racial
Studies.

Cecilia Schenetti would like to thank her PhD Supervisors: Prof. Valentina Mazzucato, Prof. Sally Wyatt, Dr. Djamila Schans.

Ep7(S5) Migration Information Campaigns – Messy, Contradictory and central to European Governments’ strategy

This is a guest episode from the third season of the Borders and Belonging Podcast, which is produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (or “CERC”) at Toronto Metropolitan University. They just launched a new season, called “in conversation”, in which leading voices dive into urgent migration issues shaping Canada and the world. You can find it on all major streaming services. And of course, please stay tuned for the next episode of the Migration Podcast! 

“The rise in false narratives surrounding immigrants and refugees is often amplified by social media and manipulated for political gain. In this episode, host Maggie Perzyna unpacks the dangerous intersection between digital disinformation and immigration. Experts emphasize this critical area of study as social media networks increasingly shape public opinion and policy decisions, while false narratives about migration spread faster than ever.

Guests: Katie Paul, Director, Tech Transparency Project; Anatoliy Gruzd, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Privacy Preserving Digital Technologies, Toronto Metropolitan University; and Mattias Ekman, Associate Professor, Stockholm University.”

More about the Projects mentioned in this episode:
- The hybridization of political communication: Politicized news formats and the boundaries of journal. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Foundation (RJ). https://www.su.se/english/research/research-projects/the-hybridization-of-political-communication-politicized-news-formats-and-the-boundaries-of-journal
- Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides. Canada First Research Excellence Fund. https://www.torontomu.ca/bridging-divides/
- Social Media Lab. https://socialmedialab.ca/about/

Donate or Get Involved!
- Campaign for Accountability. https://campaignforaccountability.org/
- Integrity Institute. https://integrityinstitute.org/
- NewseumED. https://newseumed.org/
- News Literacy Project. https://newslit.org/
- Reboot. https://reboot-foundation.org/


Media & Blogs
- Caulfield, T. (18 Sept 2024). Welcome to the Poilievre conspiracy theory vortex: Adopting absurd narratives has become a staple of right-wing politicking. The Walrus.
- Cadwalladr, C. (3 Aug 2024). ‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots. The Guardian.
- Isaac, M. & Schleifer, T. (7 January 2025). Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts. New York Times.
- Etc.

Reports and Policy 
- Chadwick, J. (3 June 2024). It’s time to restore some sanity to the Internet: Why we need a 180 on Section 230. Mother Jones.
- For Sale on Facebook: Accounts That Can Run U.S. Election Ads. (18 September 2024). Tech Transparency Project.
- Lu, S. (3 Jan 2025). Tech law in 2025: A look ahead at AI, privacy and social media regulation under the new Trump administration. The Conversation.
- Etc.

Books & Book Chapters
- Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso.
- Ekman, M. (2018). Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: Manufacturing the green scare. In Muslims, Migration and Citizenship (pp. 149-165). Routledge.
-Etc.

Scholarly Articles
- Ekman, M. (2022). The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims. Convergence, 28(4), 1127-1143.
- Ekman, M., & Krzyżanowski, M. (2021). A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden. Nordicom Review, 42(s1), 67-87.
- Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Taleb, O. (2024). Digital battleground: An examination of anti-refugee discourse on Twitter against Ukrainians displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. First Monday.
- Gruzd, A., Paulin, D., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2016). Analyzing social media and learning through content and social network analysis: A faceted methodological approach. Journal of Learning Analytics, 3(3), 46-71.
- Etc.

Ep8(S5)False narratives, real consequences: How is social media impacting the way we think about migration?

When it comes to what influences “migrant integration”, you might think of national-level laws and policies, and maybe look at statistics on how well immigrants are doing in relation to other groups with employment rates, their health, or language acquisition. You might also look at to what extent people have “accepting attitudes” to newcomers or neighbours with different backgrounds than them. 

Our interviewees in this episode have compelling research on how schools are sites of “integration” to be taken seriously.  After all, schools are the primary public institution where people interact with wider societies. They talk about how people in schools adapt in different ways to intercultural and multi-lingual realities and how they can be key places of civic engagement for not only for students, but also for parents. 

You’ll hear Samanwita Paul interview Dr. Irene Landini and Dr. Jacob Garrett. 

Dr. Irene Landini is a Postdoc in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Her research is in political science and sociology and focuses on the policies and practices of inclusion and exclusion of migrants and cultural and linguistic minorities from welfare services and formal educational contexts in European countries. She is the principal investigator of the Project “Digitalization and social inclusion of migrant parents in secondary schools: a challenge or an opportunity?”.

Dr. Jacob Garrett is a Research Professor at the University of Genoa in Italy. He is the Principle investigator of the Project: The Democratic Integration of Migrants. Political theory of council democracy. He also headed the Project: 'Parent Citizens,' Schools of Citizenship: Parent Councils at Public Schools in Italy, Spain, and France. He says that he “draws inspiration from [his] ethnographic encounters with immigrants, parents, and students who practice democracy every day at schools and cities in Italy, France, Spain, and the United States.”

Further reading from Dr. Irene Landini:
1) Landini I. Intercultural education and linguistic and cultural diversity: navigating the tension between policy and grassroots implementation in schools. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. Published online 2025:1-19. doi:10.1017/ics.2025.10055 
2) Landini, I. (2025). Old And New Diversities In Schools: Exploring Teachers’ Experiences with Migrant Students In South Tyrol's Rigidly Divided School System. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 25(2), 250-272. 
3) Landini, I., (2022) ‘Beyond Welfare Chauvinism? Populist Radical Right Parties’ Social Policies and The Exclusion of Migrants from National Welfare in Italy’, Italian Political Science, 16(2). 
4) Landini, I. (2024). ‘Encountering Migrant-Driven Diversity in South Tyrolean’ Rigid System of Linguistically Divided Schools: a Bottom-Up Perspective’. In: Elisabeth Alber, Alice Engl and Günther Pallaver (eds) POLITIKA 2021-Südtiroler Jahrbuch für Politik/Annuario di politica dell’Alto Adige.
Dr. Landini would like to acknowledge funding for her work from a YUFE4POSTDOC/MSCA Grant: https://www.yufe.eu/early-career-researchers/yufe4postdocs/

From Dr. Garrett:
1) Garrett, Jacob. 2025. "When Parents Govern: Participatory Decision Making and the Engineered Public Spirit." Polity 57 (4): 694-723. Garrett, Jacob and Valeria Ottonelli. 2025. “Democratic Prudence: The Philosophical and Empirical Grounding of Citizen Competence.” The Journal of Politics 87 (2): 424-436.
2) Projects: 'Parent Citizens,' Schools of Citizenship: Parent Councils at Public Schools in Italy, Spain, and France. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101024883
3) The Democratic Integration of Migrants. This project has received funding from the Italian PNRR program, "Finanziamento di Progetti Presentati Da Giovani Ricercatori" grant agreement NO. D3325000510001

Ep9(S5) Schools as sites of migrant integration

People move abroad for many reasons, one being education. Cora Xu speaks about her research with mainland and Hong Kong Chinese university students. She finds that studying abroad is driven by aspirations for social upward mobility and a sense of purpose in life. However, where one ends up pursuing an education largely depends on family wealth.

Cora is lecturer at Keele University. Learn more about Cora here:
https://www.keele.ac.uk/spgs/staff/coraxu/

Episode 2 (S1): Cora Xu on the educational mobilities of Chinese university students

Until about the end of the past century, visits, phone calls, letters and remittances were common means to upholding relationships across distance and showing care. Today, mobile devices and fast internet connections open up new avenues to stay in touch and thus change the ways in which care is expressed and practiced across distance.  

In this episode, my co-producer Jolynna speaks to Loretta Baldassar about her work on transnational families, media practices, care and ageing in migration in Australia.

Loretta Baldassar is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at UWA and an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow at Monash University. Her research and teaching areas include migration, transnational families and Australian society. Loretta is currently working on two ARC Discovery projects: Ageing and New Media and Mobile Transitions.

Learn more about Loretta here: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/loretta-baldassar

Episode 5 (S1): Loretta Baldassar on transnational families, media, and care across distance

For this episode, associate producer Milena Belloni spoke to Alcinda Honwana about her work on African youth in waithood. Through Alcinda's work, we learn more about young Africans' aspirations to become productive and accomplished members of society, and how these aspirations get youth to mobilise, politically and across space.

You can find Alcinda's professional profile here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/africa/people/Staff/Alcinda

Episode 8 (S1): Alcinda Honwana on African Youth in Waithood

The field of migration and mobility studies is vast and has grown exponentially over the past decades. To make sense of the movement of people, this podcast explores migration and mobility research globally. Providing a platform for migration scholars to speak about their projects, ideas and insights, The IMISCOE Migration Podcast aims to publicize what happens inside universities around the world. This is a podcast by the research community for everyone interested in knowing more about academic research on migration. 

Download or subscribe to hear about new books, or listen to one of our episodes in which we speak to scholars about ideas that changed how we think about migration. 

Team for season 5:
Production: 
Kate Dearden 

Team & Programming Coordinators: 
Milena Belloni, Roos Derrix, Mark Marvin Kadigo

Financial Administration & Engagement: 
Asya Pisarevskaya

Interviews: 
Amanda Paz Alencar, Liberty Chee, Silindile Mlilo, Itzel Eguiluz, Samanwita Paul

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