Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Podcasts
Lectures given as part of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies joint seminar series are now available as podcasts through SOAS Radio
Podcasts from the SDS conference are available below:
Dr Ellie Gore Gender, forced labour, and migration in the cocoa industry
Dr Hannah Jones Why aren’t we talking about political assassinations? Race, borders, and the murder of Jo Cox
Dr Paolo Novak Asylum seekers' reception in Italy: reflections at the end of field research
Fiorenza Picozza Producing Europe’s Geographies of Asylum: Ethnographic Reflections on Helping, Solidarity and Self-Organisation in Hamburg during and after the ‘Refugee Crisis’
Dr Hannah Cross Beyond Neoliberalism: what is the left's project for migration?
Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff, Dr Maria Kaistrinou, and Razan Ghazzawi Syrians In Exile
Dr Marieke van Houte Contained: exploring out-of-the box tools to build resilience in refugee-receiving communities
Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor Food and Multiculture: An East End Case Study
Dr Nando Sigona Navigating the Central Mediterranean: experiences, discourses and responses
Dr Rochelle Almeida Britain’s Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation
Prof Michel Agier Borderlands: From migrant question to a new cosmopolitism
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Beyond Orientalism: England’s Complex Relationship With the East
Dr Martina Tazzioli Identify, label and divide. The accelerated temporality of control and temporal borders in the hotspots
Dr Lorenzo Pezzani Forensic Oceanography: Contesting the violent Architecture of the EU’s Maritime Frontier
Dr Robtel Pailey Birthplace, Bloodline and Beyond: How 'Liberian Citizenship' Is Currently Constructed in Liberia and Abroad
Dr Reece Jones Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Dr Petra Gümplova Getting Legality Right in the EU Refugee Crisis
Dr Ala Sirriyeh ‘Felons are also our Families': Emotions, Storytelling and Citizenship in the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement in the USA
Dr Fran Meissner Legal Status Diversity - Linking National Level Control to Local Level Diversities
Dr Reza Gholami Diaspora, Education and the Cosmopolitan Project
Dr Amy Donovan Blondell (University of Oxford) Occupation, Nomadism, and the Landscape of Desire: Collaborating and Travelogueing with Youth on the Move
Dr Jill Rutter Migrant integration in the UK: politics, policy and practice
Gerasimos Tsourapas Agents of Nationalism: The Arab Cold War & The Politics of Egyptian Migration under Gamal Abdel Nasser
Dr Melanie Griffiths The Home Office within the Home: Negotiations of Family and Precarity by Irregular Male Migrants and their Citizen Partners
Dr Nadine El-Enany The Migrant and the Refugee: Debunking the Distinction
Dr Kavita Datta (Queen Mary) Re-centring Diverse Practices and Geographies of Transnational Migrant Giving
Adam Elliot-Cooper The Annihilation of Time Through Space: Colonial Policing in Britain Today
Prof Vincent Brown Designing Histories of Slavery in the Database Age
Dr Heather Johnson Taking Pictures: Pity, Fear, Security and Solidarity at the Border
Is there a refugee crisis in Europe? A roundtable discussion with SOAS academics and students
Dr Alice Elliot On migration, proportion, and texture
Dr. Nadine El-Enany Dr. Heather Johnson Dr. Ala Sirriyeh and Emma Patchett Law, Labour and Critical Migration
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis Disaporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
Suhail Ilyas, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Shanice McBean, and Kevin Bismark Cobham Departure Point: political blackness and solidarity between people of colour in the UK
Dr Rehana Ahmed (Queen Mary), Professor Stephen Morton (Southampton) and Professor Peter Morey (East London) Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Dr Liza Schuster The dangers of presumption, prejudice and copy-pasting in asylum decision-making
Professor Alice Bloch Living as an undocumented migrant: Managing constraints and making sense of status based exclusions and multiple vulnerabilities
Prof Christina Boswell Governing by Numbers: The Role of Quantification and Targets in UK Debates on Immigration
Prof Bridget Anderson The Rise of the Worker Citizen
Ashraf Hoque The Politics of Pragmatism: the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets
Dr Mattia Fumante (University of St Andrews) Interdisciplinary Responses to Cultural Citizenship and Migration
Professor Nicholas De Genova (King's College London) Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis
Dr Simon Behrmanm - Freedom From Seizure Law and Asylum in Conflict - SOAS
Professor Gijsbert Oonk (Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Netherlands) Indian Diaspora in the Indian Ocean Region Reflections on Migration, Settlement and Change
Dr Giulia Scalettaris (University of Lille), The UNHCR, Afghan Refugees and the Enforcement of the National Order
Dr Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University) 'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
Somali Week: Identity and Diversity
Dr Kathryn Cassidy (University of East London) Beyond Situated, Everyday, Intersectional Bordering: Translocation, Transcalarity and Transtemporality in Dover-Calais Border Narratives
Emma Patchett - Nomadism as a cultural and legal category: Roma, trans-territoriality and peripheral space
Making Home' Closing Event Panel Dicussion
Barzoo Eliassi - Conceiving statelessness from diaspora: The case of Kurds in Europe
Jamilla Hamidu - Political Participation of the Ghanaian Diaspora in Accra and London
Roland Schilling - UNHCR’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Maritsa Poros - Forced or Voluntary Migration? The case for a relational approach to a theoretical divide
Marloes Janson - Islam, Youth and Modernity in Gambia
Dr Irene Naluwembe Binaisa - ‘We Search for Life’: mobilities within the African Great Lakes Region
Reverend Nicolas Guérékoyamé - The Central African Republic Crisis: a pre-genocide situation?
Leo Lucassen, University of Leiden - Cross-cultural migrations in Eurasia since 1500: towards a global comparative method
Dr Magnus Marsden - Trading worlds: Afghan merchants across modern frontiers
Tanja Bastia - Migration, informality and visions for a just city: the making of urban citizenship in Buenos Aires
Dr Ishan Ashutosh - Tethering Diasporas: Nation States and the Transnational Practices of South Asian Diasporas
Amitabh Rai, Queen Mary University - On the Jugaad Image: Embodying the Mobile Phone in India
Dr Arshad Ali (Institute of Education, University of London), Citizen Suspect: Muslim youth in post 9-11 America
Peter Geschiere, Witchcraft
Anna Lindley, Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives
Dr Liza Schuster SDS Podcast
Dr Parvathi Raman SDS Podcast
Continuity and Change: Immigrants in Spitalfields 1660-2000