Dr. Alison Mountz talks to Dr. Sharry Aiken and Dr. Stephanie Silverman about immigration detention in the context of their project, De-Carceral Futures, which aimed to create a broader public conversation about immigration detention and its consequences.
Dr. Alison Mountz talks to Dr. Sharry Aiken and Dr. Stephanie Silverman about immigration detention in the context of their project, De-Carceral Futures, which aimed to create a broader public conversation about immigration detention and its consequences.
Alison Mountz and Laura Bisaillon speak about the experience of being an immigrant and about what that means in today's world. They also talk about what it means to be a reluctant activist and what to do when starting in activism.
Alison Mountz interviews Naomi Paik, who is an associate professor of Criminology, Law, & Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. They discuss Naomi's book, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, and what it means today to be an activist and an academic.
On this episode, Alison Mountz interviews Nandita Sharma, professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, about her recent book, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. They talk about how to overcome the labels of "migrant" and "native" and to build a decolonized commons.
On this second episode, Alison Mountz, Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration, chats with Maurice Stierl, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield, about his book, Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe, and his work with the NGO Alarm Phone.
On the second season premiere, Alison Mountz, Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration, chats with Reece Jones, Professor and Chair at the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and a Guggenheim fellow. They discuss racism and immigration in the United States in the context of Reece's book, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall, published by Beacon Press.
On this season finale episode, Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Cetta Mainwaring, 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, 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).
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Feyzi Baban, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trent University, Suzan Ilcan, Professor in the Department of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and Kim Rygiel, 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 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021)
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with Martina Tazzioli, 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, published by SAGE in January 2020.
Alison Mountz, IMRC's Director, chats with William Walters, 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, published by Routledge in Spring 2021.
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