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Borders & Belonging
What's the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking? Did migration myths drive the 2016 Brexit vote? Do border walls stop migration?
Maggie Perzyna wants to dispel migration myths: why people leave their homeland and the changes they bring in the societies they move to.
Maggie is a researcher with the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration & Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University and this new podcast is Borders & Belonging. Maggie will talk to leading experts from around the world and people with on-the-ground experience to explore the individual experiences of migrants: the difficult decisions and many challenges they face on their journeys.
She and her guests will also think through the global dimensions of migrants’ movement: the national policies, international agreements, trends of war, climate change, employment and more.
Borders & Belonging brings together hard evidence with stories of human experience to kindle new thinking in advocacy, policy and research.
Top researchers contribute articles that complement each podcast with a deeper dive into the themes discussed.
Borders & Belonging is a co-production between the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University and openDemocracy. The podcast was produced by LEAD Podcasting, Toronto, Ontario.
Episodes and articles
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Borders & Belonging: does brain drain hurt the Global South?Or is it just the effect of global mobility in an interconnected world?
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Borders & Belonging: Are Ukrainian refugees still ‘temporary’?More than 8m Ukrainians are living elsewhere in Europe. What’s happening to them – and their host countries?
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Borders & Belonging: Should we call people climate refugees?It’s a snappy phrase, but maybe tells the wrong story
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Borders & Belonging: Are migrants the answer to labour shortages?Hear experts dissect the Global North’s attempts to counter the ‘great retirement’ with more workers from abroad
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍How migrants are changing the male face of Ghana’s gold minesMigration is allowing more and more women to become big players in an industry normally seen as men’s work
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍How grassroots democracy has become a xenophobic weapon in South Africa‘Active citizenship’ sounds like a great idea – but used against undocumented migrants it can encourage murder
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Borders & Belonging: The migrants that the West doesn’t talk about70% of the world’s migrants aren’t headed for the Global North. Why are they moving and what do they need?
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍Why so many of the world’s students want to go to Chinese universitiesThey offer three things that Western rivals can’t
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍China gives scholarships to Africans but then moves the doctoral goalpostsLots of African students are studying for PhDs in China – but why is it so hard to graduate?
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Borders & Belonging: How did China become a world student hub?Once, Chinese students dreamed of studying abroad. Now it’s the other way around
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍AI could predict climate crises, but that’s not what climate migrants needStates that are more likely to withstand climate change challenges are also more likely to use advanced technologies...
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Borders & Belonging: When AI is managing migration, should we be afraid?Artificial intelligence can predict crises and get help to migrants who need it – but the dangers are serious
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Smuggling or trafficking? For minors with few choices, the line is blurredExploitation is often one facet of children’s attempts to navigate an increasingly divided world
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Borders & Belonging: Human smuggling or human trafficking? Why the difference mattersPoliticians blur the difference because it helps them block the flows of all migrants and refugees
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Why some migrants are deemed more deserving than others in Global BritainForeign policy determines why migrants from Hong Kong got a better deal than Syrians or Ukrainians
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Why Keir Starmer is embracing a points-based immigration systemThe UK is on its fourth points-based system – but it’s no such thing
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Polish key workers feel unwelcome in the UK thanks to Brexit plus COVIDHow Brexit and COVID sharpened imagined borders within workplaces
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍Brexit means less hope for multiculturalism in the EUThe UK didn’t need the EU to enjoy multiculturalism – quite the reverse
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Published in:Podcasts👍Borders & Belonging: How has Brexit changed the UK for migrants?A few years on from Brexit, are labour shortages changing minds about migrants, or are they forever stigmatised?
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍Why Fortress Europe won’t solve the migration crisis – and what willEurope wastes money on futile border fences when better solutions are staring it in the face
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Published in:Podcasts: Analysis👍Border walls hurt the weakest and least to blame in the climate crisisFortified borders don’t stop migration – they just make inequality worse, just like climate change
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Published in:Podcasts: Opinion👍Despite Europe’s new wall, the migration route through Belarus is here to stayPushing ‘irregular’ migrants back from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia won’t stop them coming
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Published in:Podcasts👍Borders & Belonging: Why we build border wallsSince the 1990s, the world has seen a spike in border wall construction. What is driving the increase?
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Published in:Podcasts: Feature👍Borders & Belonging: TrailerMaggie Perzyna debunks myths about migration with the help of experts from around the world