Displacements, an IMRC podcast series

International Migration Research Centre

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.

17 Episoden

Conversation with Ben Muller: the appification of borders
27.4.2026
42:38
Dr. Muller works at intersection of three interdisciplinary fields: borders & borderlands studies, critical security studies, and surveillance studies. I grapple with the intersection of borders, borderlands, security, identity and postcolonial studies, sovereign power and exceptionalism, as well as topics concerning biometric technology, surveillance, AI, the politics of risk, migration & mobility, and broader themes and literatures in international political sociology.
Conversation with Sean Sithole: Fintech and remittances
27.3.2026
31:52
On this episode, PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Dr. Sean Sithole, who is an academic researcher and research fellow. His recent research work includes being a Balsillie Scholar with the Technology Governance Initiative at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) in Canada, focusing on the fusion of financial technology (fintech), digital remittances and financial inclusion. Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
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Conversation with Petra Molnar: The Walls Have Eyes
2.2.2026
46:01
On this episode, PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Petra Molnar, lawyer, anthropologist and Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab, co-hosted by York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies & Osgoode Hall Law School, about her new book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence on the impact of surveillance and border technologies on people on the move and the stories of travellers and those who assist them as they encounter and resist the borders.
Conversation with Sharry Aiken & Stephanie Silverman: De-Carceral Futures
15.6.2022
31:32
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.
Conversation with Laura Bisaillon: Screening Out—HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience
31.5.2022
20:58
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.
Conversation with Naomi Paik: Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary
17.5.2022
24:06
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.
Conversation with Nandita Sharma: "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants"
3.5.2022
32:13
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.
Conversation with Maurice Stierl: "Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe"
19.4.2022
30:23
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.
Conversation with Reece Jones: "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall"
5.4.2022
30:21
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.
Conversation with the author: Cetta Mainwaring, "At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean"
14.6.2021
27:16
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).

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Displacements, an IMRC podcast series

International Migration Research Centre

17 Episoden

Conversation with Ben Muller: the appification of borders

Conversation with Sean Sithole: Fintech and remittances

Conversation with Petra Molnar: The Walls Have Eyes

Conversation with Sharry Aiken & Stephanie Silverman: De-Carceral Futures

Conversation with Laura Bisaillon: Screening Out—HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

Conversation with Naomi Paik: Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary

Conversation with Nandita Sharma: "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants"

Conversation with Maurice Stierl: "Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe"

Conversation with Reece Jones: "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall"

Conversation with the author: Cetta Mainwaring, "At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean"