Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement

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“Conversations with Iris” is a podcast series on migration, diversity and displacement hosted by the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, UK. In our Conversations, we dialogue with researchers, teachers, writers, migrants, refugees, activists, community organisers, artists and policymakers on issues related to migration and diversity. The series is edited and produced by Stefano Piemontese and Nando Sigona and is also available as Zoomcast on www.youtube.com/ConversationswithIris

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Episodes

The end of the “age of migration”? – In conversation with Alan Gamlen (S1 E6)

In this episode, IRiS Director Professor Nando Sigona talks to Dr Alan Gamlen, Associate Professor of Geography at Monash University, Australia, founding editor-in-chief of the journal Migration Studies (OUP) and co-editor of the “Global Migration and Social Change” book series for Bristol University Press. Inspired by Alan Gamlen’s recent COMPAS Working Paper on migration and the pandemic, this conversation speculates on the impact of the pandemic on migration flows and governance and what we c...

Jun 15, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 6

The impact of COVID-19 on migrant women in the UK – In conversation with Rubina Jasani (S1 E5)

Dawn River, academic at IRiS talks to Dr Rubina Jasani, Programme Director for Global Health at The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute in Manchester. Rubina has an interest in exploring people’s lived experience of violence, displacement and identities; gender and sexuality; and suffering and healing. As a founding member of ‘No Recourse! Peer Research Project’ in partnership with WAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together, Manchester) and serving on the Board of Directors of Safety4Sisters, ...

Jun 12, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 5

A not sighted asylum seeker in Rome – In conversation with Melash Zeleke (S1 E4)

Melash Zeleke is from Ethiopia and is a not sighted asylum seeker currently living in a reception centre in Rome, Italy. He tells Natasha Nicholls and Annavittoria Sarli (IRiS) about his story and his life.

Jun 08, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Social justice and accountability in times of crisis – In conversation with Daniel Trilling (S1 E3)

In this episode, Lyndsey Stonebridge, professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, talks to Daniel Trilling, former editor of the New Humanist, journalist and author of Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) and Bloody Nasty People. The Rise of Britain’s Far Right (2012).

Jun 01, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Being a LGBTIQ asylum seeker in times of pandemic – In conversation with Espoir Njei (S1 E2)

This conversation between Espoir Njei and Dawn River took place one month into the coronavirus lockdown. They built a friendship through their shared commitment to supporting LGBTIQ migrants fleeing persecution. Espoir is a lesbian asylum seeker from the Cameroon currently in lockdown in Birmingham and Dawn is a queer academic at the University of Birmingham currently in lockdown in Germany.

May 14, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 2

The migrant city at the time of Covid-19 – In conversation with Les Back (S1 E1)

Lyndsey Stonebridge, professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, dialogues with Les Back, professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently co-author of “Migrant City” (Routledge 2018).

May 06, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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