Asad and Marian’s family fled conflict in Somalia and found refuge in eastern Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. That was in 1991. Three decades later, the family still hasn’t been allowed to build a permanent home together anywhe

The end of the American century, with Wade Davis

1 Sep 17th, 2020 32m 57s

What does the mishandling of the covid-19 crisis reveal of the United States?Canadian anthropologist, author, and National Geographic explorer Wade Davis wrote a blockbuster essay this summer, "The unraveling of America," and hit a raw nerve. H

Why we go back to where we come from, with Kamal al-Solaylee

Nov 24th, 2021 38m 17s

Immigration isn't a one-way ticket. For many, the homeland calls back. From the Basque region to Israel, Jamaica to Taiwan, Kamal al-Solaylee talks to those who've chosen to make their way home as he plans his own return. Will reality match the

Why mass migration is inevitable, with Parag Khanna

Nov 11th, 2021 45m 2s

Climate change and economic inequality are pushing people of the Global South to move north. Countries in the North are depopulating, losing their workforce and their tax base. It shouldn't be that hard to put two and two together and create mi

A conversation on (not quite) everything, with Jonn Elledge

Oct 28th, 2021 59m 10s

How World War II is a British psychosis. Why we don't talk about empire. French universalism vs. British multiculturalism. How the nation state was made up. And a geopolitical utopia out of Star Trek. A freewheeling conversation with author and

Living stateless, with Christiana Bukalo

Oct 21st, 2021 42m 48s

Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate daily life and personal identity unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.Show notes[00:00:00] Intro [00:01:42] What is statelessness?[00:

Why you should leave the door open to strangers, with Will Buckingham

Oct 14th, 2021 42m 10s

Will Buckingham gave me my new favourite word. He's a philosopher so it's only right the word should be Greek. Philoxenia is the word. Love of the foreign. It's that sense of curiosity, desire to connect and good will that make us seek out thos

Growing up undocumented in America, with Qian Julie Wang

Oct 7th, 2021 39m 54s

When she was 7, Qian Julie Wang – just Qian Wang then – landed at JFK airport in New York City. Her airsick mother leaned on her for support. Her father, whom she hadn't seen in two years, had skimped on food to afford the cab driving them from

Tfw you lead a team you've never seen, with Ariane Bernard

Sep 30th, 2021 45m 38s

Ariane Bernard founded Helio in 2020. Her startup has never known a world where you could network in person, meet clients and investors easily or work from a common space with your employees. How do you lead a team you've never seen? And in a m

The US reopens to foreign visitors* (*terms and conditions apply), with Anna Lekas Miller

Sep 23rd, 2021 37m 14s

Travelers from 33 countries – nearly half the planet – were long barred from entry into the United States for pandemic reasons. They’ll be allowed in again from early November as long as they can prove they are fully vaccinated and provide a ne

How China built the perfect police state, with Geoffrey Cain

Sep 16th, 2021 40m 5s

It’s got the Big Brother and Newspeak of 1984, the predictive policing of Minority Report, the monitoring and neighbourly delation of the Stasi and the cultural erasure of the Khmer Rouge. And concentration camps. In Xinjiang, the Chinese Commu

Manifesto for a new nomadism, with Felix Marquardt

Sep 9th, 2021 41m 13s

Movement is core to the human experience and to the emancipation of ambitious young people all over the world. Leaving home – really leaving – is the final step of one's education, says Felix Marquardt, author of The New Nomads. But globetrotte

[Extra] LinkedIn Live: How to make remote, hybrid and distributed work actually work, with Lauren Razavi

Jul 9th, 2021 46m

Tips from a digital nomad and a global team manager on how to work from anywhere successfully. (Audio from a LinkedIn livestream on 7 July 2021)See it on LinkedIn. See it on Youtube.★ Support this podcast ★

What immigrants never tell you, with Dina Nayeri

Jul 6th, 2021 48m 41s

Refugees are modern Scheherazades. They trade their story for another chance at life. The sultan is an indifferent asylum officer behind her desk, a well-meaning charity worker or a hostile native citizen. But so much truth goes untold. The exh

The unkept promises of the Windrush scandal, with Amelia Gentleman

Jun 22nd, 2021 46m 1s

Through dogged reporting in The Guardian, Amelia Gentleman showed that British residents and citizens who had arrived from the Caribbean in the 1950s and 60s had been mistakenly classified as unauthorized immigrants. That came to be known as th

Wtf is going on inside the Home Office? with Daniel Trilling

Jun 8th, 2021 41m 50s

How can one institution be so universally criticised, not just by the immigrants and citizens who at one point or another must use its services, but by all those who encounter it, whether lawyers, judges, activists, journalists, or even those w

Raising global teens, with Dr Anisha Abraham

May 25th, 2021 33m 17s

Kids who grow up between cultures develop invaluable skills. But having to figure out one’s cultural identity, on top of the usual teenage challenges, can make adolescence even harder. Mental health, belonging, conflict, rites of passage… A ped

[Replay] The century-long project to build a global nation, with Hassan Damluji

May 18th, 2021 35m 12s

If globalists want to build a more united world, they need to look at how nation-states did it – at a smaller scale – in the last couple centuries, says Hassan Damluji, author of The Responsible Globalist. It’s a 100-year project, but one we ca

How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon Valley, with Christopher Schroeder

May 11th, 2021 46m 4s

Venture capitalist Chris Schroeder travels the world to invest in emerging markets. To the entrepreneurs he meets, Silicon Valley is just one of many models, China is everywhere and South-to-South exchanges are constant. To succeed in this dist

Should we abolish borders? with Leah Cowan

May 4th, 2021 36m 53s

The border isn’t a line on the periphery of the country, says Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation. It is a fog that covers all of society and can descend upon you at any time if you’re an immigrant or racialized as “other.” It wasn’t always thu

Vaccine nationalism is winning, with Tania Cernuschi

Apr 26th, 2021 28m 28s

More than half of Covid-19 vaccines administered so far have been in high-income countries, which account for just 15% of the world population. Four out of five doses are purchased outside COVAX, the UN-backed procurement scheme that had attemp

The psychology of borderless thinking, with Steve Taylor

Apr 20th, 2021 31m 48s

Nationalist or globalist? It may come down to psychological health.Strong attachment to group identity is born out of insecurity, explains psychologist Dr Steve Taylor. Psychologically healthy people feel connected to all humans and are able to

For transnational families, lockdown has no end

Apr 13th, 2021 22m 28s

The UK is reopening, but not transnational families. Visiting friends or relatives abroad is the second most frequent reason for foreign travel. It's about one in four trips out of the UK, twice the volume of business travel. Travel restriction

The Year 1000: When globalisation began, with Dr Valerie Hansen

Mar 30th, 2021 36m 56s

Globalisation isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonisation and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie Hansen, professor of Chinese history at Yale University, points to the year 1000 as one ea

"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system," with Zoe Gardner

Mar 23rd, 2021 38m 50s

In this conversation, Zoe Gardner, policy advisor at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, covers: How immigration exposes women to a higher risk of violence and abuseWhy policing and immigration enforcement must be decoupledWTF “no