Episodes
Ukraine wages war on the ground, in media... and in the courts.
Published 05/05/22
"The dehumanization of migrants happens because we haven't heard stories that insist on complexity and nuance"
Published 04/19/22
It starts with unauthorised migrants and doesn't end there. Filmmaker Sonita Gale follows professionals, students and British citizens whose lives were upended by the UK's immigration system.
Published 03/28/22
"It's not that the UK has done absolutely nothing. It's just _almost_ absolutely nothing."
Published 03/01/22
Being an immigrant sharpens perception, keeps you open to different perspectives and lets you see the grey areas. What's not to like?
Published 02/23/22
Sure, burnout is not *just* about overwork. But it *is* about overwork.
Published 02/16/22
The Smiths may not be the ones to bring together the world’s news consumers. But should anyone?
Published 01/16/22
The UK's hostile environment turns 10 in 2022. Immigration lawyer Colin Yeo explains the ideology and set of policies that made hostility to immigrants the law of the land.
Published 12/23/21
Empires fall. We all knew this one would too. But this soon? This fast?
Published 12/14/21
Joe Biden campaigned on massive immigration reform. Here's what he's inherited, what he's already changed... and what he still hasn't.
Published 12/08/21
Arriving without a visa to claim asylum is legal, there is no queue to jump and there is no such thing as the "first safe country" rule.
Published 12/01/21
Immigration isn't a one-way ticket. For many, the homeland calls back.
Published 11/24/21
Climate change and demographics are setting the stage for a massive reshuffling of the human population.
Published 11/11/21
An Englishman and a French woman walk into a podcast studio...
Published 10/28/21
Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate daily life and personal identity unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.
Published 10/21/21
Xenophobia lurks in all of us. But so does philoxenia, that peculiar curiosity and desire to connect when we meet a stranger. What if we cultivated it?
Published 10/14/21
"Only two people on the continent could know my secret."
Published 10/07/21
Sure, employees never want to give up remote work. But how does a founder feel?
Published 09/30/21
Vaccinated non-nationals will soon be allowed into the United States again. Journalist Anna Lekas Miller discusses how the United States’ pandemic travel restrictions fit into the larger, historical picture of American borders.
Published 09/23/21
The Uyghurs’ real-life dystopia in Xinjiang offers a glimpse of a political and technological future George Orwell could only imagine.
Published 09/16/21
People who cross borders can make a better world. But first we need to leave La La Land.
Published 09/09/21
Don't want to go back to the office? You don't have to.
Published 07/09/21
A wide-ranging conversation with Iranian American novelist Dina Nayeri on the refugee experience, gratitude, assimilation, waiting, losing your fire, what humans are entitled to and why we won’t let others have it. "There's just so much that the displaced don't tell the native-born."
Published 07/06/21
In 2018, Amelia Gentleman revealed the Windrush scandal. Three years on, does Britain treat its immigrants any better?
Published 06/22/21