53: Are immigration raids racist kidnappings?

Please note: this episode is in Swedish. I avsnittet: Wesam, statslös i Sverige Nannie Sköld, Stadsmissionen Projektet Vem är jag imorgon? https://www.stadsmissionen.se/fa-stod/stod-och-rattigheter/stod-asylansokan Emma Söderman, Universitetslektor vid Linnéuniversitetet Profil: https://www.lnu.se/personal/emma.soderman Podden presenteras av Clara Sandelind, universitetet i Manchester Podden stöds av universitetet i Manchester, the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust

What are the risks and rewards associated with political activism among migrant children and teenagers? And what is it like to live as an undocumented child in Sweden? In this episode: Zinnat: active member of the No One is Illegal Network https://www.ingenillegal.org/english Jacob Lind: Senior Lecturer at Malmö University at the Department of Global Political Studies https://mau.se/en/persons/jacob.lind/#00Z9VM-0HNMAL916R648 https://mau.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?dswid=9520&pid=diva2%3A1917851&c=6&searchType=RESEARCH&language=en&query=&af=%5B%5D&aq=%5B%5B%7B%22personId%22%3A%22ad6783%22%7D%5D%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%5D%5D&aqe=%5B%5D&noOfRows=50&sortOrder=dateIssued_sort_desc&sortOrder2=title_sort_asc&onlyFullText=false&sf=all Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester, Department of Politics, and this episode is supported by the British Academy

In September this year, Swedish people are heading to vote in a general election. One of the questions at stake is the country’s increasingly harsh migration and asylum policies. In this episode: Torun Elsurd: Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work at Linnaeus University and co-author of Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change. https://lnu.se/en/staff/torun.elsrud/ https://lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1958307&dswid=205 Bernd Parusel: Senior Researcher in Political Science at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies. https://sieps.se/en/about-sieps/contact-us/bernd-parusel/ This episode is supported by the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester and the British Academy. It is presented by Clara Sandelind.

Migrants Rights Network recently published a report on the extent and nature of immigration raids in the UK. This episode interviews two of its co-authors. In this episode: Julia Tinsley-Kent, Head of Policy and Communications Lauren Fernandes, Policy and Campaigns Assistant https://migrantsrights.org.uk/about/our-people/ To read the report 'Immigration Raids: An Anatomy of Racist Intimidation': https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/immigration-raids-an-anatomy-of-racist-intimidation/ Research referenced in the episode: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/48675912.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Ae070afe890cb0445565697dad034ef76&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 Apologies for the occasional poor sound quality. This podcast is supported by the Department of Politics, the University of Manchester

What role do memories play in displacement? Are memories political? In this episode, we discuss questions of memory, war, exile and building a new home. In this episode: Ammar Azzouz, Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator of Slow Violence and the City https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/aazzouz.html Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester and produced by Clara Sandelind.

In this episode: Guy Aitchison, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/staff/guy-aitchison/#tab3 If you need help or someone to talk to: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/seeking-help-for-a-mental-health-problem/mental-health-helplines/ Article discussed in this episode in The Journal of Politics: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/729936?journalCode=jop Article in the Journal of Social Philosophy: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josp.12557 This podcast is supported by the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester

Perhaps one of the most contentious questions within debates around migration is how the movement of people across international borders affect levels of crime. Simply asking the question carries certain assumptions about the relevance of someone’s migration background to whether or not they are more at risk of committing or being the victim or crime. What does the criminological research tell us about what, if anything, we know about immigration and crime? In this episode: Amber Beckley, criminologist at Stockholm University https://www.su.se/english/profiles/ambe0256-1.187765 Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester.

The Danish parliament has voted in favour of seeking bilateral agreements with third countries to process and protect asylum seekers there instead of in Denmark. The practical and legal obstacles are many, as are worries about the protection of asylum seekers' human rights. In this episode: Nikolas Tan, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights https://www.humanrights.dk/staff/nikolas-feith-tan Blog post by Nikolas Tan on the Danish policy: https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/04/19/denmarks-extraterritorial-asylum-vision/

EU citizens in the UK had to apply for settled status by the end of June. What does this entail and what happened to those who failed to do so? Why are employers checking the status of their employees? In this episode: Olivia Vicol, co-founder and Director of Work Rights Centre - https://www.workrightscentre.org/ Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester

The UK government has published the New Plan for Immigration policy paper and a consultation period ran from late March to early May. The policy paper describes reforms to the asylum system and other parts of the immigration system. In this episode, we discuss the plans, their implications and criticism. In this episode: William Wheeler, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/william.wheeler.html Recent work: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/refugees-and-religion-ethnographic-studies-of-global-trajectories/ch13-conversion-through-destitution Robert Thomas, Professor of Public Law, University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/robert-thomas(6d45ce04-7714-421b-b67a-b19fd2d7fb37).html Recent work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PgCNG_godY0-rjwGyvP1hbXyWjdi55IW/view Charity mentioned in the episode: Migrant Destitution Fund https://www.migrantdestitution.co.uk/ Apologies for occasional poor sound quality.