This podcast features scholarly interviews with professors specializing in refugee research, authors of recent monographs in migration studies and writers of memoirs on refugee experiences. It offers insightful academic dialogues on a variety of topics. It intends to reach students, practitioners and laypersons.
Amanda Lubit, *Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland: An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking*. New York: Berghahn Books, 2025.
The odyssey of migrant Muslim women in the fractured, post-conflict landscape of Northern Ireland, both prior to and following the pandemic, is woven with a rich tapestry of narratives and experiences centered around the quest for belonging. This book delves into the ways these women strive to carve out their identities and establish a sense of home amidst pervasive hatred, sexism, and racism. In the face of such adversity, these women employ a myriad of strategies to forge connections with t...
16 Jun 2026
Jessie Cox, *Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music and Unthought Voices*. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2025.
In this monograph, scholar, composer, and musician Jessie Cox highlights the experiences of Black Swiss individuals through the mediums of sound and music. Being a Black Swiss himself, Cox affirms the importance of Black life expressed through sound while also critiquing the anti-Blackness that results in erasure, silence, and limitations. Through his analyses, Cox delves into the complexities of anti-Blackness in Switzerland, promoting a practice of listening that goes beyond mere auditory p...
9 Jun 2026
Magdalena Slavkova, *Conversion, Leadership and Identity of the Evangelical Roma in Bulgaria*. Paderborn, Germany: Brill Schöningh, 2025.
In her groundbreaking research, Magdalena Slavkova combines historical and ethnographic viewpoints, making a notable contribution to our understanding of Romani evangelicalism. This phenomenon emerged in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 20th century, well before many other European nations, with various missionaries, such as Methodists, Baptists, and later Pentecostals, engaging with the Roma. The book explores the conversion journeys of both men and women from different Romani communities, h...
11 May 2026
Yianni Cartledge, *Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building, and Integration*. London: Anthem Press, 2026.
This scholarly monograph investigates a relatively unexamined diaspora that traces its roots back to the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria is a small, isolated island located close to the Turkish coastline. It has a rich and independent history, characterized by times of autonomy and self-rule, including the short-lived Free State of Ikaria in 1912, which arose from the Ikarian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire. Up until the nineteenth century, the people of Ikaria were quite insula...
8 May 2026
Maxim Matusevich, *Six Trains of No Return: Short Stories and Novellas*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
This book features twelve short stories and novellas that delve into immigrant narratives and dislocations that are both deeply personal and universally significant. These tales recount past lives and loves, memories that are both delicate and sometimes unreliable, and our connections to larger historical narratives. They also reflect the Soviet Jewish experience during what was perceived as 'The End of History' in the declining days of the USSR. A French-Cambodian woman embarks on a series o...
6 May 2026
Alice Neikirk, *The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth: Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance*. Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 2023.
This ethnography examines the experiences of Bhutanese refugees who fled their homeland, spent time in camps in Nepal, and eventually settled in the markedly different culture of Australia. During this process, they come to understand how humanitarian compassion can be manipulated to oppress, restrict, and diminish human rights. However, they also discover that this charitable system has small openings that allow for action. The Bhutanese adeptly maneuver through the conflicting expectations ...
22 Feb 2026
Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, *No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023.
For the sixty thousand German Jews who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine from 1933 to 1940, migration signified radical transformations: it altered their professional and cultural lives and confronted them with a new language, climate, and society. This book intertwines German-Jewish and Israeli history, narrating the story of German-Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine/Eretz Israel as a gender history. It argues that this migration was shaped and structured by gend...
13 Jan 2026
Niamatullah Ibrahimi, *The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017
The Hazaras of Afghanistan have faced the consequences of many destructive forces that began with the formation of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. Their relationship with the Afghan state has been characterized by numerous episodes of ethnic cleansing, mass dispossession, forced displacement, enslavement, and social and economic marginalization. Mainly Shia in a country that is predominantly Sunni Muslim, and recognizable by their Asian features, the Hazaras have become the internal "Other...
26 Dec 2025
Allison Wolf, *Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account*. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
In contrast to most theoretical discussions on immigration that commence with philosophical ideas and subsequently derive conclusions from them, this book adopts a distinct approach. It starts with actual cases and immigration policies from the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Colombia to assess immigration control and prepare us to confront it. Each chapter begins with particular immigration policies, practices, or immigrant experiences in the U.S. and Latin America, then analyzes...
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