Perhaps one of the most contentious questions within debates around migration is how the movement of people across international borders affect levels of crime. Simply asking the question carries certain assumptions about the relevance of someone’s migration background to whether or not they are more at risk of committing or being the victim or crime. What does the criminological research tell us about what, if anything, we know about immigration and crime? In this episode: Amber Beckley, criminologist at Stockholm University https://www.su.se/english/profiles/ambe0256-1.187765 Talking Migrati ..read more

The Danish parliament has voted in favour of seeking bilateral agreements with third countries to process and protect asylum seekers there instead of in Denmark. The practical and legal obstacles are many, as are worries about the protection of asylum seekers' human rights. In this episode: Nikolas Tan, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights https://www.humanrights.dk/staff/nikolas-feith-tan Blog post by Nikolas Tan on the Danish policy: https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/04/19/denmarks-extraterritorial-asylum-vision ..read more

EU citizens in the UK had to apply for settled status by the end of June. What does this entail and what happened to those who failed to do so? Why are employers checking the status of their employees? In this episode: Olivia Vicol, co-founder and Director of Work Rights Centre - https://www.workrightscentre.org/ Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester ..read more

The UK government has published the New Plan for Immigration policy paper and a consultation period ran from late March to early May. The policy paper describes reforms to the asylum system and other parts of the immigration system. In this episode, we discuss the plans, their implications and criticism. In this episode: William Wheeler, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/william.wheeler.html Recent work: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/refugees-and-religion-ethnographic-studies-of-global-trajectories/ch13-conversion ..read more

In 2017, Dina Nayeri, an American-Iranian author, wrote an article for the Guardian with the title ‘The ungrateful refugee: We have no debt to repay’. Last year, she published the book ‘The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You’, which tells her own and several other refugees’ stories while exploring themes of refugee life. In this episode: Dina Nayeri http://www.dinanayeri.com/ Book: The Ungrateful Refuge https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-ungrateful-refugee/dina-nayeri/9781786893499 Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee ..read more

Every year, people die trying to reach safety and a better future in a different country. But how many and who they are has been mostly unknown. The Missing Migrants Project, run by IOM, has started to collect data on who the people are who have lost their lives while migrating. In this episode: Kate Dearden, Project Officer https://missingmigrants.iom.int/ Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester ..read more

The UNHCR plays a critical role in the protection of refugees. Yet while the UNHCR seeks to pressure states into providing aid and protection to refugees, it is also funded by states. What does this tension mean? How has the role of the UNHCR changed and how does it brand itself? In this episode: Jeff Crisp, Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/jeff-crisp-1 Work mentioned: https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/26/3/article-p359_1.xml ..read more

In her new book, No Refuge, Serena Parekh describes what she calls the second refugee. This crisis means that the vast majority of refugees cannot find safety or conditions for a life with dignity. Parekh argues that this amounts to a structural injustice and she joins this episode to discuss her book. In this episode: Serena Parekh, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/serena-parekh/ Book discussed: No Refuge https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-refuge-9780197507995?cc=us&lang=en ..read more

Covid-19 has presented challenges for everyone, but some people are more affected than others. People with disabilities have not been able to socially distance to the extent that others can, and trying to do so may come with extra costs. For disabled asylum seekers, who in the UK are prevented from working and earning a living, this presents additional and significant challenges. In this episode: Dickson Tarnongo, PhD student in Law, Leicester University, Disability Rights and Citizenship Tarnongo's article on asylum, disability and covid-19: https://www.migrantvoice.org/archive/the-plight-of ..read more

Many people believe that some or all immigration laws are unjust. Does that imply that citizens and migrants don’t have to obey those laws? Do some of us even have a duty to resist them? Is it possible to believe that migrants don’t have to comply with immigration laws even if you think states have a right to exclude immigrants? In this episode: Matthew Lister, Senior Lecturer in Deakin Law School: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/matthew-lister Selected works: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phc3.12653 https://philarchive.org/rec/LISDAO Javier Hidalgo, Associate P ..read more