Episodes 61
Avg. Duration 50m
Activity Sporadic
Since Aug 2020
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

Migration Conversations is a podcast that invites persons to share their migration stories. Hosted by Professor Jamie Liew, each episode is an in-depth conversation with people who have experienced the Canadian immigration system or other migration regimes up close. We talk to migrants, immigrants, lawyers, policy makers, advocates and experts. We hope that these conversations shed light on the challenges migrants face through their own voices. Please note this podcast is not legal advice.

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Recent Episodes

Paying For It: A Panel Discussion with Sook-Yin Lee, Chester Brown, Dr Chris Bruckert and Dr Ummni Khan.

Nov 04, 2025 29m

Meet  filmmaker and artist Sook-Yin Lee,  graphic artist Chester Brown and experts Dr. Chris Bruckert and Dr. Ummni Khan. Following a screening of the film Paying For It, this panel discussed the…

A Seismic Change in International Law and Ardi Imseis

Mar 27, 2025 52m

Meet Ardi Imseis, law professor and lawyer who represented Palestine before the International Court of Justice in the Advisory Opinion on Israel's Illegal Presence in the Occupied Palestinian…

Code Noir, Slavery and the Law

Jan 31, 2025 59m

Join this intimate conversation between Adelle Blackett, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and Canisia Lubrin, award winning poet and writer…

Movement Lawyering with Reakash Walters

Jan 15, 2025 35m

We speak with Reakash Walters as she provides an analytical toolkit for those who want to work with and not merely represent marginalized peoples and communities. She shares her research co-conducted…

Social Justice Interventions

Jan 12, 2025 1h

We speak with four lawyers who intervene in the courts on behalf of community organizations. What is an intervention and why is it an important entry point for community organizations to converse…

Using Love for Transformative Change with Kai Cheng Thom

Dec 02, 2024 45m

Meet award winning writer, performance artist and community healer Kai Cheng Thom. She talks about how love can be a framework for transformative change and how even in the face of hate and…

How to Abolish Prisons with Justin Piché

Nov 20, 2024 45m

Meet Justin Piché, co author of the book How to Abolish Prisons with Rachel Herzing. We talk about this book and how abolition is not just a theoretical concept but a practice and a possibility.…

The Walls Have Eyes with Petra Molnar

Oct 24, 2024 55m

In this episode, I speak with Petra Molnar about her new book The Walls Have Eyes where her research uncovers what technological experiments are taking place at various borders around the world on…

Protest & Law

Oct 10, 2024 1h 16m

Martin Luther King Jr once said that civil disobedience is not lawlessness but a higher form of lawfulness. In this episode, I speak with Faisal Bhabha, Irina Ceric and Paul Champ, lawyers and…

Debbie Rachlis and The Failure of the Gaza Special Measures Program

Jul 08, 2024 58m

Meet immigration and refugee lawyer, Debbie Rachlis. We talk about the Gaza Special Measures Program, why nobody has been able to come through that program, and what it tells us about IRCC's ad hoc…

History of Chinese Migration to Hawai'i

Jul 03, 2024 50m

Meet Douglas Chong, director of the Hawai'i Chinese History Centre. We talk about the long historical presence of Chinese in Hawai'i, how personal and community archives are essential to counter…

Practising Immigration and Refugee Law in Hawai'i with Esther Yoo

May 25, 2024 55m

Meet Esther Yoo, Director of the Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i. We talk about how immigration and refugee law clients and…

Home Rule and Nandita Sharma

May 23, 2024 58m

Meet Dr. Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Her provocative book interrogates the nation-state system and the anti-colonial and…

Detour Hawai'i with Dr. Kyle Kajihiro and Hawai'i Peace and Social Justice (Part 2)

May 13, 2024 37m

Meet Dr. Kyle Kajihiro who teaches at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Ethnic Studies and Geography and Environment. His research focuses on U.S. imperial formations, militarization, and…

Detour Hawai'i with Dr. Kyle Kajihiro and Hawai'i Peace and Social Justice (Part 1)

May 13, 2024 58m

Meet Dr. Kyle Kajihiro who teaches at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Ethnic Studies and Geography and Environment. His research focuses on U.S. imperial formations, militarization, and…

Local Story and the Massie/Kahahawai Case with John Rosa

Mar 09, 2024 56m

In the 4th episode of the Hawai'i series of the Migration Conversations Podcast, I speak with Dr. John Rosa, and associate professor of history at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Dr. Rosa’s…

Law by Night with Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

Mar 02, 2024 1h 20m

In the third instalment of Migration Conversations' Hawai'i Series, I speak with Dr. Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, a professor in political science at the College of Social Sciences, University of…

White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the US with Reece Jones

Feb 26, 2024 1h 2m

Welcome to the second episode of a special series of Migration Conversations in Hawai'i. In this episode I am in conversation with Reece Jones, a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in…

Nā Wāhine Koa - Hawaiian Women Warriers and Noelani Goodyear- Ka'ōpua

Feb 20, 2024 55m

Welcome to the first episode of a special series of Migration Conversations in Hawai'i. In this episode I am in conversation with Noelani Goodyear-Ka’ōpua in an outdoor park with light rain tickling…

Containing Diversity

Sep 13, 2023 51m

This episode features the collective work of three scholars about their book, Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century - an important teaching tool but also…

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How many episodes does Migration Conversations have?

Migration Conversations has published 61 episodes since August 2020, covering topics in Documentary, Education.

Is Migration Conversations still active?

Migration Conversations is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 50m.

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