Displacements, an IMRC podcast series

Displacements, an IMRC podcast series

International Migration Research Centre

Episodes 16
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Since Mar 2021
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Hosting
feeds.simplecast.com

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About This Podcast

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 guest hosts from the IMRC and the 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.

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Recent Episodes

S3E2 Conversation with Sean Sithole: Fintech and remittances

Mar 27, 2026 31m

On this episode, PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Dr. Sean Sithole, who is an academic researcher and research fellow. His recent research work includes being a Balsillie Scholar with the Technology…

S3E1 Conversation with Petra Molnar: The Walls Have Eyes

Feb 02, 2026 46m

On this episode, PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Petra Molnar, lawyer, anthropologist  and Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab, co-hosted by York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies &…

S2E6 Conversation with Sharry Aiken & Stephanie Silverman: De-Carceral Futures

Jun 15, 2022 31m

Dr. Alison Mountz talks to Dr. Sharry Aiken and Dr. Stephanie Silverman about immigration detention in the context of their project, De-Carceral Futures, which aimed to create a broader public…

S2E5 Conversation with Laura Bisaillon: Screening Out—HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

May 31, 2022 20m

Alison Mountz and Laura Bisaillon speak about the experience of being an immigrant and about what that means in today's world. They also talk about what it means to be a reluctant activist and what…

S2E4 Conversation with Naomi Paik: Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary

May 17, 2022 24m

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,…

S2E3 Conversation with Nandita Sharma: "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants"

May 03, 2022 32m

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…

S2E2 Conversation with Maurice Stierl: "Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe"

Apr 19, 2022 30m

On this second 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,…

S2E1 Conversation with Reece Jones: "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall"

Apr 05, 2022 30m

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…

S1E8 Conversation with the author: Cetta Mainwaring, "At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean"

Jun 14, 2021 27m

On this season finale episode, 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,…

S1E7 Conversation with the authors: Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan & Kim Rygiel, "The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey"

May 31, 2021 31m

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 &…

S1E6 Conversation with the author: Martina Tazzioli, "The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders"

May 17, 2021 27m

Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Martina Tazzioli, Lecturer of Politics and Technology  in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths College, University of…

S1E5 Conversation with the author: William Walters, "State Secrecy: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary"

May 03, 2021 30m

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…

S1E4 Conversation with Margaret-Walton Roberts, co-editor of "A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada" and Bayan Khatib of the Syrian Canadian Foundation

Apr 19, 2021 33m

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…

S1E3 Conversation with the author: Irina Aristarkhova, Arrested Welcome

Apr 05, 2021 22m

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…

S1E2 Conversation with the author: Kim Rygiel, "Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe"

Mar 22, 2021 28m

Alison Mountz IMRC's Director chats with Kim Rygiel, Associate Director of the IMRC, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School…

S1E1 Conversation with the author: Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum

Mar 08, 2021 31m

Kim Rygiel IMRC's Associate Director chats with Alison Mountz, Director of the IMRC, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration & Professor, Geography & Environmental Studies, Balsillie School…

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