Migration Conversations

About 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, 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.

Publisher

Jamie Liew

Category

education · government · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Aug 2020

Latest episode

4 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

18 of 61 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   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 film Paying For It, this panel discussed the book behind the film, and how how law circumscribes love, intimacy and our relationships. Sponsored by the Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession, this event took place in September 2025.

2. 

   27 Mar 2025TRANSCRIPT

   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 Illegal Presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Professor Imseis is also the author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine. He talks about the advisory opinion and what it means for international law and how we can harness it for the continuing BDS movement.

3. 

   31 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT

   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 and Canisia Lubrin, award winning poet and writer who teaches at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA program. They talk about Canisia's debut fiction Code Noir and the enduring legacies of the colonial law that created the material conditions of slavery.

Who has been a guest on Migration Conversations

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sandra Ka Hon Chu
• Rosel Kim
• Annamaria Enenajor
• Naseem Mithoowani

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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