Migrations: A World on the Move

In our final episode of the season, we talk to guests Philip Gleissner, Harry Eli Kashdan, and Reem Kassis about their book of essays and recipes called Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes.

E. Tendayi Achiume is a professor of law at UCLA. Her research focuses on international migration, refugee displacement, and especially the role of international law in shaping the way that borders work.

In a visit to Novellara, Italy last summer, our host Eleanor Paynter and guest host Elena Bellina learned about the community of Sikh Indians who began migrating to the area in the 1980s.

The next episode of Migrations: A World on the Move is coming soon! In the meantime, enjoy this introduction to a new podcast from our colleagues at the South Asia Program, available now wherever you get your podcasts. 

Our guest today is Momar Ndiaye, assistant professor of dance at Ohio State University (OSU) and a celebrated choreographer. Momar's work in African dance and contemporary dance is internationally recognized, and he's toured across the U.S. and abroad.

This summer, hosts Eleanor Paynter and Elena Bellina visited the Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale in Italy, an archive of stories and writing ranging from diaries to handwritten notes on loose slips of paper.

This season, we're thinking about crossing, not only the physical crossing of national borders, but various forms of encounter and exchange that happen because of those migrations.

In this episode, we share a conversation with Dr. Lamis Abdelaaty and Dr. Rebecca Hamlin about refugee status in policy and in discourse, and more broadly about the categories and labels we use to talk about migration.

How has a Tibetan community come to call Ithaca, New York home? Cornell student Daniel Bernstein produces this special episode in search of an answer.

"The camp is time and time is the camp," reads poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh in our latest episode. Waiting for the Future is both a conversation and a poetry reading, featuring not only Yousif and his work but migration scholars Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Shahram Khosravi.

Underground Railroad scholars Gerard Aching and Alice Baumgartner talk to us about the wait for justice. Aching, a professor at Cornell, studies northward movements of people seeking freedom, while Baumgartner studies a less known path of slaves who traveled south to Mexico to escape.

We're back with season 2! In our first full episode on the theme of waiting, we talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Molly O'Toole and Arizona State University professors Abby Wheatley and Gabriella Soto.

When we think about migration, we often have movement in mind, journeys by foot, boat or plane, the crossing of borders the idea of return. But what happens when people can no longer cross a border? What do we learn about migration when we focus on questions of time?

In this special bonus episode of the podcast, we are sharing a conversation with guest Nanjala Nyabola. We spoke with Nyabola, a Kenyan writer and activist, as part of our Race and Racism Across Borders event.

On this episode, we learn from Kurt Jordan and Laiken Jordahl about dispossession: what it is and how it is affecting Indigenous people, wildlife, and ecosystems.

In this episode, we look at surveillance and migration. We speak first with Monamie Bhadra Haines, whose work in Singapore looks at the surveillance of migrants before the pandemic and uses it to understand the surveillance state now.

Migration and global racial justice are critically linked. We learn from Camilla Hawthorne and Shailja Patel in this episode about the racialization of migrants, how racism against migrants is a global issue, and how creative practice plays a role in their work.

We bring migration scholars Filiz Garip and Ingrid Boas into conversation this week to talk about climate.

In this first episode, we are in conversation with migrations scholars to understand how COVID-19 is shaping our understanding of borders and migration, informing the ways we live and move through the world, and highlighting our connections with local ecologies from the microscopic to the global.

 Introducing A World on the Move, a podcast that seeks to understand our world through the interconnected movements that shape it. With each episode, we will speak with experts who highlight how multidisciplinary multispecies perspectives on migration help us understand key global is