Displacements
We live in an ever-increasingly mobile world. Wilfrid Laurier University’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) supports scholarship and research on international migration and mobility at global, national, regional and local scales. And now, the IMRC takes on a new digital platform through its exciting and informative podcast, Displacements. Join Alison Mountz, Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration and Kim Rygiel, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, the School of International Policy and Governance, and Balsillie School of International Affairs as they talk to authors, activists, scholars, creatives and a host of other people engaging migration, displacement, and related issues.
Season 2
On this episode, Dr. Alison Mountz talks to Dr. Sharry Aiken, Associate Professor at Queen’s Law with a cross appointment to Cultural Studies and to Dr. Stephanie Silverman, who currently works at the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. They talk about Sharry and Stephanie's project, Decarceral Futures: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future, which aimed to create a broader public conversation about immigration detention and its consequences.
On this episode, Alison Mountz interviews Laura Bisaillon, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough in political sociology about her book, Screening Out: HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience. They talk about what it means to be a reluctant activist and what to do when starting out in activism.
On this episode, Alison Mountz interviews Naomi Paik, who is an associate professor of Criminology, Law, & Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. They discuss Naomi's book, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, and what it means today to be an activist and an academic.
On this episode, Alison Mountz interviews Nandita Sharma, professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, about her recent book, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. They talk about how to overcome the labels of "migrant" and "native" and how to build a decolonized commons.
On this episode, Alison Mountz, Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration, chats with Maurice Stierl, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield, about his book, Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe (Routledge,2020), and his work with the NGO Alarm Phone.
On the second season premiere, Alison Mountz, Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration, chats with Reece Jones, Professor and Chair at the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and a Guggenheim fellow. They discuss racism and immigration in the United States in the context of Reece's book, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall, published by Beacon Press (2021).
Season 1
Kim Rygiel, IMRC's Associate Director, chats with Alison Mountz, Director of the IMRC, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration & Professor in Geography & Environmental Studies at the Balsillie School for International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, about her new book, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, published by University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Kim Rygiel, Associate Director of the IMRC and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs about her new co-edited book with Feyzi Baban, Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Irina Aristarkhova, Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan about her new book, Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art, published by the University of Minnesota Press in spring 2020.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Margaret Walton-Roberts, Professor of Geography at Wilfrid Laurier University, about her new co-edited book with Leah Hamilton and Luisa Veronis, A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada, published by McGill-Queen's University Press in August 2020. Joining in on the conversation as well is Bayan Khatib, Executive Director of the Syrian Canadian Foundation.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with William Walters, Professor of Politics in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology and Faculty of Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University, about his new book, State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, published by Routledge in spring 2021.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Martina Tazzioli, Lecturer in Politics and Technology in the Departments of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths College, University of London, about her book, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders, published by SAGE in January 2020.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Feyzi Baban, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trent University, Suzan Ilcan, Professor in the Department of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo, and Kim Rygiel, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and Associate Director of the IMRC, about their forthcoming book The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021).
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Cetta Mainwaring, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Social and Politics Sciences at the University of Glasgow, about her book, At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean, published by Oxford University Press in October 2019. This book is also winner of the 2020 Best Book Award of the International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group - British International Studies Association (BISA).