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Laurie Hartley, Asylum Seeker Support Worker at (previously known as UKLGIG), speaks to IRiS academic Dawn River about the experiences of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK.

This recording has been published during Pride month to highlight the specific challenges facing LGBTQI+ asylum seekers.

 

IRiS Director Professor Nando Sigona is joined by Zoe Gardner, Policy Advisor with the  to discuss the UK’s new plan for immigration. This episode of Conversations with IRiS was released to mark Refugee Week 2021.

 

Sarah Hamed, dentist and PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University and Dr Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, docent and senior researcher at the Department of Government at Uppsala, discuss with Professor Jenny Phillimore from IRiS on findings from an interdisciplinary project looking at understanding racism and healthcare.

 

ILGA-Europe staff Akram Kubanychbekov and Cianán Russell speak with Dawn River from IRiS.  Their research reveals there have been significant impacts on the health, socioeconomic security, and physical security of LGBTIQ individuals, as well as impacts on the function and funding of LGBTIQ organisations.

 

Here the second part of Nando Sigona’s interview with Adrian Favell on Brexit, free movement and the return to ‘integration’.

 

How has Brexit redrawn the boundaries of membership in the UK? IRiS Director Nando Sigona talks to Professor Adrian Favell about the ESRC-funded  project on the impact of Brexit on northern towns and small cities, and how the end of freedom of movement doesn’t mean less immigration, but immigration with less rights and protections. 

Adrian Favell is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Leeds and chercheur associé of the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po, Paris. He is also a Professorial Academic Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and on the editorial committee of Journal of Common Market Studies.

 

Dr Andrea Poleto Oltramari (Visiting Fellow at IRiS) and Dr Josiane Silva de Oliveira discuss the racialised and gendered effects of Covid-19 in Brazil. The Conversation was recorded at the end of June 2020.  The conversation is spoken in Portuguese with English subtitles.

 

IRiS researcher Dr Marisol Reyes talks to Brenda Ochoa, Director of the NGO Human Rights Centre Fray Matias de Cordova AC, on the effects of border closure at the Guatemala and Mexico border on Central American migrant caravans in the context of Covid-19 public health crisis.

The conversation “Caravans migrantes: violencia, fronteras y Covid-19” is in Spanish with English & Spanish subtitles.

Jenny Phillimore talks to Chip Gallagher (LaSalle University, US) about immigration and racism and how they are shaping voting behaviours in the US Election as well as the prospects for change with the election of a Biden/Harris-led government.  Chip Gallagher is Professor of Sociology at LaSalle University, US. His research focuses on social inequality, race relations, whiteness and immigration, and he has published over 50 articles, reviews and books on these topics. As a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University 麻豆精选 in the U.K. in 2016-17, Gallagher researched attitudes on immigration and Brexit.

Here is the second part of Nando Sigona’s interview with professor Cecilia Menjivar, 113th President-Elect of the American Sociological Association on , , the Trump administration and the fragility of migrant lives. It concludes with a reflection on the role of sociologists in times of  and .

Below is the first part of a dialogue between Prof Nando Sigona, Director of IRiS, and Cecilia Menjívar, Professor of Sociology at UCLA and President-Elect of the  on the impact of the  administration and -19 on migrant lives.

IRiS Researcher, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, talks to Maureen Lewis, Chief Officer of  and Advisory Board member of .  They discuss Maureen’s important work, the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the importance of learning from our collective history.

Sandra Pertek, IRiS Researcher, speaks to Pip McKnight of Refugee Women Connect and Hana Leshaj, asylum seeker based in Liverpool and member of Refugee Women Connect Advocacy Group, about the deteriorating reality post COVID-19 for migrants and asylum seekers in the UK, at the time of easing lockdown restrictions.

IRiS Researchers, Annavittoria Sarli and Natasha Nicholls talk to Nina Sahraoui from the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CNRS) and Sabrina Marchetti from the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, specialists in the intersection of gender and migration. 

IRiS Researcher, Annavittoria Sarli talks to Giuseppe Pugliese, an activist at SOS Rosarno, a civil society organisation that fights against the exploitation of agricultural workers, mostly migrants, in Italy. 

The conversation is in Italian with English subtitles. 

 

Professor Jenny Phillimore talks to Ruth Forecast and Sharon Baker from the Malvern Welcomes Community Sponsorship Group. They discuss the challenges that refugee families and volunteers have faced in the time of Covid-19, including getting to grips with new technologies, supporting children with school work and enabling families to understand the regular Government updates and information. Find out more about the IRiS Community Sponsorship Scheme evaluation research in the UK.  

 

In 2017, the Iranian-Kurdish writer, Behrouz Boochani, published an extraordinary book,  which documented his life imprisoned in the Australian-run immigration detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Combining political theory, myth, poetry, memoir, the book rises to the challenge of resisting oppression by creating a new literary form of knowledge. Written using phone text messaging, the text was also a work of interdisciplinary translation, collaboration, and imagination. 

In this episode Lyndsey Stonebridge talks with the political philosopher, Omid Tofighian, Boochani’s translator and collaborator. They examine how contemporary migration regimes can be described as an interlocking ‘Kyriarchal’ systems of domination and explore how creative writing can lead to new understandings of injustice and human rights. This is about Boochani mentioned in the video.  

In this episode, IRiS Director Professor Nando Sigona talks to Dr Alan Gamlen, Associate Professor of Geography at Monash University, Australia, founding editor-in-chief of the journal Migration Studies (OUP) and co-editor of the “” book series for Bristol University Press. Inspired by Alan Gamlen’s recent COMPAS Working Paper on migration and the pandemic, this conversation speculates on the impact of the pandemic on migration flows and governance and what we can expect for the future. 

Dawn River, academic at IRiS talks to Dr Rubina Jasani, Programme Director for Global Health at . Rubina has an interest in exploring people’s lived experience of violence, displacement and identities; gender and sexuality; and suffering and healing. As a founding member of ‘’ in partnership with WAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together, Manchester) and serving on the Board of Directors of Safety4Sisters, Rubina has been committed, through the co-creation of knowledge, to challenging stereotypes, raising awareness and campaigning for fundamental rights for refugees and asylum seekers. Informed by her academic and political work and, in her own words, ‘the experience of being a brown Indian woman’, Rubina speaks about the impact Covid-19 is having on the lives of activists and refugee and migrant women in the UK. 

In this episode of Conversations with Iris, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University 麻豆精选, talks to Daniel Trilling, former editor of the New Humanist, journalist and author of Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) and Bloody Nasty People. The Rise of Britain’s Far Right (2012).

Melash Zeleke is originally from Ethiopia and is a not sighted asylum seeker currently living in a reception centre in Rome, Italy. He tells Natasha Nicholls and Annavittoria Sarli (IRiS) about his story and his life.  

This conversation between Espoir Njei and Dawn River took place one month into the coronavirus lockdown. They built a friendship through their shared commitment to supporting LGBTIQ migrants fleeing persecution. Espoir is a lesbian asylum seeker from the Cameroon currently in lockdown in Birmingham and Dawn is a queer academic at the University 麻豆精选 currently in lockdown in Germany. 

In the follow up to our first Conversation, Lyndsey Stonebridge (IRiS) talks to Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London) about the future of learning and universities.

The first conversation is between our colleague Lyndsey Stonebridge, professor of humanities and human rights at the University 麻豆精选, and Les Back, professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently co-author of Migrant City (Routledge 2018).