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.
Conversation with Ben Muller: the appification of borders
Varinia Salazar, Master of International Policy, interviews Dr. Ben Muller, Professor at King's University College at Western Canada, about how applications and technology have changed our experience of the border.
27 Mar 2026
Conversation with Sean Sithole: Fintech and remittances
PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Dr. Sean Sithole about his work on fintech and remittances.
2 Feb 2026
Conversation with Petra Molnar: The Walls Have Eyes
Ana Visan interviews Petra Molnar about her book, The Walls Have Eyes.
15 Jun 2022
Conversation with Sharry Aiken & Stephanie Silverman: De-Carceral Futures
Alison Mountz talks to Sharry Aiken and Stephanie Silverman about immigration detention.
31 May 2022
Conversation with Laura Bisaillon: Screening Out—HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience
Alison Mountz and Laura Bisaillon speak about the experience of being an immigrant and about what that means in today's world.
17 May 2022
Conversation with Naomi Paik: Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary
Alison Mountz and Naomi Paik discuss Naomi's book.
3 May 2022
Conversation with Nandita Sharma: "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants"
Alison Mountz and Nandita Sharma discuss Nandita's book, "Home Rule" and explore the meaning of migrants and natives in the context of colonialism.
19 Apr 2022
Conversation with Maurice Stierl: "Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe"
Alison Mountz and Maurice Stierl talk about boat migration and activism in Europe.
5 Apr 2022
Conversation with Reece Jones: "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall"
Alison Mountz and Reece Jones talk about the history of immigration through the lens of racism in the United States.
14 Jun 2021
Conversation with the author: Cetta Mainwaring, "At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean"
On this season finale episode, Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Cetta Mainwaring (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/cettamainwaring/), 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 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/at-europes-edge-9780198842514?cc=ca&lang=en&#), 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).
31 May 2021
Conversation with the authors: Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan & Kim Rygiel, "The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey"
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Feyzi Baban (https://www.trentu.ca/politicalstudies/faculty-staff/dr-feyzi-baban), Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trent University, Suzan Ilcan (https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/people-profiles/suzan-ilcan), Professor in the Department of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and Kim Rygiel (https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/kim-rygiel/index.html), 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 (https://www.mqup.ca/precarious-lives-of-syrians--the-products-9780228008040.php?page_id=73&) (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021)
17 May 2021
Conversation with the author: Martina Tazzioli, "The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe's Borders"
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Martina Tazzioli (https://www.gold.ac.uk/politics-and-international-relations/staff/tazzioli-martina/), Lecturer of Politics and Technology in the Department 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 (https://sk.sagepub.com/books/the-making-of-migration), published by SAGE in January 2020.
3 May 2021
Conversation with the author: William Walters, "State Secrecy: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary"
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with William Walters (https://carleton.ca/polisci/people/walters-william/), 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 (https://www.routledge.com/State-Secrecy-and-Security-Refiguring-the-Covert-Imaginary/Walters/p/book/9781138285439), published by Routledge in Spring 2021.
19 Apr 2021
Conversation with Margaret-Walton Roberts, co-editor of "A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada" and Bayan Khatib of the Syrian Canadian Foundation
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 (https://www.mqup.ca/national-project--a-products-9780228001225.php) 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. (https://www.syriancanadianfoundation.ca/)
5 Apr 2021
Conversation with the author: Irina Aristarkhova, Arrested Welcome
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 (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/arrested-welcome), published by the University of Minnesota press in spring 2020.
22 Mar 2021
Conversation with the author: Kim Rygiel, "Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe"
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 of International Affairs about her new co-edited book with Feyzi Baban, "Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers" (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030568931), published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
8 Mar 2021
Conversation with the author: Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum
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 for International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University about her new book "The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago" (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-death-of-asylum), published by University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
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