Migration Conversations
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Migration Conversations
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,...
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Paying For It: A Panel Discussion with Sook-Yin Lee, Chester Brown, Dr Chris Bruckert and Dr Ummni Khan.
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...
A Seismic Change in International Law and Ardi Imseis
Meet Ardi Imseis, law professor and lawyer who represented Palestine before the International Court of Justice in the Advisory Opinion on Israel's Ill...
Code Noir, Slavery and the Law
Join this intimate conversation between Adelle Blackett, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University an...
Movement Lawyering with Reakash Walters
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...
Social Justice Interventions
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...
Using Love for Transformative Change with Kai Cheng Thom
Meet award winning writer, performance artist and community healer Kai Cheng Thom. She talks about how love can be a framework for transformative chan...
How to Abolish Prisons with Justin Piché
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 theoretic...
The Walls Have Eyes with Petra Molnar
In this episode, I speak with Petra Molnar about her new book The Walls Have Eyes where her research uncovers what technological experiments are takin...
Protest & Law
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 Bhabh...
Debbie Rachlis and The Failure of the Gaza Special Measures Program
Meet immigration and refugee lawyer, Debbie Rachlis. We talk about the Gaza Special Measures Program, why nobody has been able to come through that pr...
History of Chinese Migration to Hawai'i
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...
Practising Immigration and Refugee Law in Hawai'i with Esther Yoo
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 a...
Home Rule and Nandita Sharma
Meet Dr. Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Her provocative book interrogates the n...
Detour Hawai'i with Dr. Kyle Kajihiro and Hawai'i Peace and Social Justice (Part 2)
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....
Detour Hawai'i with Dr. Kyle Kajihiro and Hawai'i Peace and Social Justice (Part 1)
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....
Local Story and the Massie/Kahahawai Case with John Rosa
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...
Law by Night with Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
In the third instalment of Migration Conversations' Hawai'i Series, I speak with Dr. Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, a professor in political science at the...
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the US with Reece Jones
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 prof...
Nā Wāhine Koa - Hawaiian Women Warriers and Noelani Goodyear- Ka'ōpua
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’...
Containing Diversity
This episode features the collective work of three scholars about their book, Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st...
Writing and Migrating with Immigrant Writers Association
In this episode I speak with Gabriela Casineanu about the Immigrant Writers Association, how writing can be cathartic and an important way to share st...
Oceans of Law
Meet Renisa Mawani, Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Across Oceans of Law...
Refuge and Shaping Human Potential
Meet Heba Gowayed, an economic sociologist at Boston University. She is the author of "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential". Her book follows...
Immigration Bureaucracy & Postwar Policymaking
Meet Jennifer Elrick, professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University. Author of Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bure...
Beast at Every Threshold
Meet Natalie Wee, a queer poet who writes about migration, borders, papers, and interrogates what it means to be a queer, racialized person in Canada....
Deepan's Citizenship
Meet Deepan Budlakoti. Born and raised in Canada, Deepan had a Canadian birth certificate and Canadian passport. Then one day he was told he was not a...
Refugee Resettlement and Law's Borders
Meet Dr. Shauna Labman, the expert on refugee resettlement in Canada. She is an award winning author of two books: Crossing Law's Border: Canada's Ref...
Writing, Identity and Rats
Meet Carrianne Leung, Jenny Heijun Wills and Lindsay Wong, all award winning authors in Canada. We talk about the craft of writing, the fluidity and c...
Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread
Meet author Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread. Her debut novel was longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize, finalist for CBC's 2021 Ca...
Kashif's Captivity
Meet Kashif Ali, a criminalized migrant who was detained in Canada for seven years. Kashif talks about his addition, how his addiction led to his crim...
Detention and the Limits of Legal Remedies
Meet Jared Will, an immigration and refugee lawyer, who is well known, among other things, for representing persons in immigration detention. We talk...
The Deported
Meet Alvin Brown, a Black man deported from Canada. Alvin Brown was adopted as a child and grew up in Canada. Unbeknownst to him, Alvin was not a Cana...
Justice Mavin Wong
Meet Justice Mavin Wong. She was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in 2000 and currently presides at College Park Court, which is one of two c...
Statelessness & COVID 19
Statelessness & COVID-19
This is an encore presentation of a webinar featuring 5 grassroots organizations and researchers sharing their observat...
From Refugee to Cabinet Member
Meet the Honourable Ahmed Hussen. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, co-founded Regent Park Community Council, was national...
Butterfly: Migrant Sex Worker Rights
Meet Elene Lam, the founder and executive director of Butterfly, an Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network. The tragic deaths of six Asian wome...
Judging
Meet Justice Douglas Campbell, the longest serving judge in Canada. He was appointed to the British Columbia Provincial Court in 1974 at the age of 29...
Elusive Refuge
Meet Laura Madokoro, historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. She is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chine...
An Ambassador's Reflections
Meet Bob Rae, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York. Mr. Rae was Premier of Ontario (1990-1995), Interim...
Souheil & the JAIL Hotline
Meet Souheil Benslimane, a self-identified "illegalized" and criminalized migrant currently being processed for deportation from Canada. We talk about...