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Migration is a complex phenomenon – for individuals, it is a personal journey that can result in struggle or triumph depending on life circumstances; and for countries, it can be an economic driver, or a source of social tension or even conflict.Host Maggie Perzyna, Toronto Metropolitan University, explores the complexity of migration with the help of leading academics and professionals working with migrants on the ground.Season 5 of Borders & Belonging explores spaces where migration and digital technologies collide. As conversations about AI take over popular discourse, we’re taking a step back to see how the ever expanding menu of advanced digital technologies is being used by migrants, civil society, and governments to facilitate, restrict and shape global mobility.Settle in for a season of migration tech support.For show notes and transcripts, visit: https://www.torontomu.ca/global-migration-
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- Yesterday41 min
The biometric border: What happens when your body becomes your passport?
What happens when your body becomes your passport? In Season 5, Episode 2 of Borders & Belonging, host Maggie Perzyna explores the growing reliance on biometric technology—from fingerprints and iris scans to dental imaging and AI-driven accent recognition—in global border management and refugee protection. As digital tools reshape how borders are governed, what do these systems mean for privacy, security, and human rights? Narrative intro: Sayed Mobassher, Senior Protection Associat...
- 2 weeks ago43 min
Migration futures: Imagining migration governance in 2050
In this episode, we're looking ahead to the 2050s and imagining what the future of migration might look like. From climate change to shifting populations, we're exploring what forces could shape how and why people move in the future. This look forward helps us challenge our assumptions and prepare for possibilities we might otherwise overlook. We don't have a crystal ball to tell us exactly what the future holds, but we can look at what's happening today to imagine what might come next. Narra...
- 3 weeks ago1 min
Borders & Belonging - Season 5 Trailer
Welcome to Season 5 of Borders & Belonging — the podcast that explores migration through bold research, new ideas, and stories that connect those findings to the real world. This season, we’re exploring spaces where migration and digital technologies collide. As conversations about AI take over popular discourse, we’re taking a step back to see how the ever expanding menu of advanced digital technologies is being used by migrants, civil society, and governments to facilitate, restrict, an...
- Jun 30, 202633 min
The Link4skills Navigator and Demographic modelling, feat. Sandra Leitner and Michaela Potančoková
In this bonus episode, Sandra Leitner and Michaela Potančoková unpack the logic behind labour force modelling and what it reveals about Europe's demographic and migration future. Drawing on the Link4Skills Navigator, a tool built to map labour market data, skills partnerships, and demographic trends across countries, they discuss why migration is not a panacea for population aging, how Germany's long-declining fertility rates are quietly driving one of the EU's most urgent labour shorta...
- Apr 21, 202640 min
Anna Triandafyllidou on migration governance, feat. Letizia Palumbo
From growing up in a changing Greece to becoming one of the leading voices in migration research, Anna Triandafyllidou reflects on how her work on migration governance, identity and belonging took shape. She is joined by Letizia Palumbo, whose work on labour and exploitation brings into focus how policies shape and often constrain the everyday realities of migrant life. Together, they discuss why migration policies often fail to reflect lived realities, and how labour systems and identity nar...
- Apr 7, 202641 min
Nina Glick Schiller on transnationalism, feat. Karina Quintanilha
What happens when migration can no longer be understood within the borders of a single nation-state? Nina Glick Schiller reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped her pioneering work on transnationalism and the power structures that shape mobility. She is joined by Karina Quintanilha, whose research explores how law, labour and inequality shape migrant lives across local and global scales. Together, they discuss why migrants are never simply “between” places and how transnational tie...
- Mar 24, 202636 min
Andreas Pott on spatial reflexivity, feat. Christine Lang
From dreaming of Olympic glory on the track to reshaping how migration studies thinks about space and knowledge, sociologist Andreas Pott reflects on the intellectual detours and shifting perspectives that led him to question the very categories migration researchers take for granted. He is joined by Christine Lang, whose work on skilled migration in the health sector illustrates what it looks like to step back from dominant policy framings and study how migration and the spaces around it are...
- Mar 10, 202635 min
Gracia Liu-Farrer on the social construction of skill, feat. Helena Hof
What happens when a visa category becomes a verdict on your worth? Gracia Liu-Farrer reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped her influential work on migration, labour markets and the social construction of skill. She is joined by Helena Hof, whose research examines how labels like "high-skilled" and "low-skilled" are assigned, contested and recognised across cities, institutions and borders. Together, they discuss why skill is never simply what you know or what you can do, how...
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About Borders & Belonging
Migration is a complex phenomenon – for individuals, it is a personal journey that can result in struggle or triumph depending on life circumstances; and for countries, it can be an economic driver, or a source of social tension or even conflict.Host Maggie Perzyna, Toronto Metropolitan University, explores the complexity of migration with the help of leading academics and professionals working with migrants on the ground.Season 5 of Borders & Belonging explores spaces where migration and digital technologies collide. As conversations about AI take over popular discourse, we’re taking a step back to see how the ever expanding menu of advanced digital technologies is being used by migrants, civil society, and governments to facilitate, restrict and shape global mobility.Settle in for a season of migration tech support.For show notes and transcripts, visit: https://www.torontomu.ca/global-migration-
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