Who do we think we are?
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Who do we think we are?
From Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Windrush deportation scandal citizenship and the responsibilities of the UK government to the people of Hong Kong, it seems that citizenship and migration in Britain are never far from the headlines. Who do we think we are? explores all of this and more....
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S4 E1 Raiding Sanctuary
When anti-immigration raids intensified in the USA after Trump’s return to the presidency, it left many wondering: how could this happen in places lik...
S3 E11 Labour’s new immigration plan is anything but Brexit
Michaela and Nando get together to discuss the UK’s Labour Government 2025 promise to restore control over immigration by reducing net migration. The...
S3 E10 Migration and the making of Global Britain
What’s the significance of migration for the making of ‘Global Britain’? And what are the theoretical and conceptual tools that can help to unpack thi...
S3 E9 (Not so) safe routes
What are the UK Government’s ‘safe and legal routes’? How do these relate to ‘stop the boats’, the Rwanda Plan, and the curtailment of asylum as laid...
S3 E8 Fortress Britain?
What’s Brexit got to do with the ‘small boats’ crisis? What does racialised border violence in the Channel tell us about 'Global Britain’? And what ca...
BtH2 E2 Beyond the headlines … Care Activism with Ethel Tungohan
Migrant laborers worldwide are engaged in care work, but who provides care for them? And where can they seek care? In this discussion with Ethel Tungo...
S3 E7 Families at the borders
What happens when borders cross families? How do families navigate these interruptions to their ability to live together? This episode considers what...
BtH2 E1 Beyond the headlines … at Manchester Museum with Senna Yousef and Caitlin Nunn
We’re out and about in this episode! Ala and Michaela have been on the road. And in this episode they visit Manchester Museum and a new project aimed...
S3 E6 Migrant Rights 2.0
Borders around the world are becoming increasingly digitised. But who does the digitisation of borders serve? How are these technologies related to st...
S3 E5 Migration, diaspora, diplomacy
What role do diplomacy and the power play between states play in the development of migration policy? And how can turning our attention to the signifi...
S3 E4 A New Plan for Migration?
What’s changed in the UK’s approach to migration since Brexit? How has this impacted on migration flows? Who is and isn’t migrating to the UK ?
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S3 E3 Bye, Bye Britain
Understandings of migration are invariably reduced to immigration, framed by the policy agenda of receiving states. But what about the people who leav...
BONUS Interview with Elspeth Guild
This bonus episode features the full length recording of Elspeth Guild, legal scholar and counsel and our guest in Season 3 Episode 2, offering deep i...
S3 E2 Free Movement, limited
We’re talking Freedom of Movement, its role in the formation of an EU–wide imagined community, and the experiences of people who have lost their FOM...
S3 E1 Of Kings, Songs and Migrants
What does Eurovision have to do with the Coronation? We’re talking about what we learn about ‘Global Britain’ and its imagined community from looking...
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[SWAP] Uncommon Sense: Security, with Daria Krivonos
Too often, talk about security seems to belong to politicians and psychologists; to discussions about terrorism and defence, individual anxiety and in...
S2 BONUS Behind the Scenes
Here’s a little season end bonus, where our presenter, Michaela Benson and podcast researcher, George Kalivis go behind the scenes at Who do we think...
S2 E10 In dialogue
For the final episode of Season 2, we bring you a set of conversations about what Who do we think we are? achieves through dialogues with archival and...
S2 E9 East-West inequalities and the remaking of unequal Europeans
What does the characterisation of those from Europe’s east as migrants by politicians and in some corners of the media make visible about the politics...
S2 E8 Who is a migrant?
There is nothing politically neutral about classifying and categorising people as migrants. This is a process through which certain individuals and po...
BtH1 S8 Beyond the headlines … with İdil Akıncı-Pérez
All eyes have been on Qatar because of the World Cup. And with it, attention to the poor working conditions and treatment of migrant construction work...
S2 E7 European Identities from the Aliens Act 1905 to Brexit
Who is unquestionably European? From Brexit to the war in Ukraine, this question has come to the fore as people of colour have found themselves dispro...
BtH1 S7 Beyond the headlines … with Hannah Lewis
In July 2022 the news broke that Sir Mo Farah, four times Olympian for Team GB, had been trafficked to the UK as a child. The headlines enhanced publi...
S2 E6 Imagining a new Britain, 20 years on
Who do we think we are? In the early 2000s, with the beginning of the New Labour government, journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown asked this question, call...
BtH1 E6 Beyond the headlines … with Cecilia Menjívar
For many people, migration is about escaping persecution and state violence. But in the context increasingly criminalisation of migration, state viole...
S2 E5 What can we learn about what British and EU citizenship from Brexit?
As people find themselves queueing up at border controls in EU member states, as their passports are stamped, there have been questions about why thes...
BtH1 S5 Beyond the headlines … with Colin Yeo
With a new UK cabinet comes a new Home Secretary, Suella Braverman MP former Attorney General. While there has been a lot of focus on her politics, wh...
S2 E4 What do family migration rules reveal about British citizenship today?
You start a relationship with someone living abroad. As the relationship gets serious, you decide to take the next steps and live together. But there'...
S2 E3 How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship?
Over the past few years, international media has been full of reports of protest among them the global Black Lives matter protests, the uprisings in H...
BtH1 E4 Beyond the headlines … with Alison Phipps and Tawona Sithole
In June 2022, the headlines in the UK were full of news about the Rwanda plan. As an ECHR ruling halted the first deportation flight scheduled to depa...
*EPISODE SWAP* Surviving Society E147 Aleema Gray: Notes on the Rastafari Movement in Britain
For our first episode swap, we’ve partnered up with Surviving Society, the antiracist podcast that explores the local and global politics of race and...
BtH1 E3 Beyond the Headlines...with Zrinka Bralo
In May 2012 Home Secretary Theresa May vowed to create ‘a really hostile environment for illegal migrants’, heralding in a set of policies which requi...
S2 E2 What does British citizenship have to do with Global Social Inequalities?
Commonplace understandings of citizenship equate it with equality – at least among those holding the same citizenship. But looking the processes by wh...
BtH1 E2 Beyond the headlines … with Aaron Winter
Mass shooting in the US have been headlines news over the past month. The pattern? White gunmen opening fire in supermarkets, schools and public space...
S2 E1 What does the Nationality and Borders Act mean for British citizenship?
What is the UK’s Nationality and Borders Act? How does it relate to previous acts concerned with nationality and immigration legislation? What is the...
BtH1 E1 Beyond the Headlines ... with Dr Yvonne Su
Countries around the world have been quick to crow about the provisions they are putting in place to welcome those displaced by the war in Ukraine. Ye...
S1 E10 What can we learn about British citizenship from the Chagos Islanders?
What rights to citizenship do those from Britain’s 14 remaining overseas territories? What about those who through no fault of their own found themsel...
S1 E9 What do the children denied the right to nationality through their British parents tell us about citizenship?
Did you know that until 2014 that some of those born overseas to unmarried British citizen fathers were not eligible for citizenship? Or that even whe...
S1 E8 What do Clause 9 (Nationality and Borders Bill) and the history of citizenship deprivation in the UK tell us about Britishness today?
Did you know that British citizenship can be cancelled or removed? And that when the Nationality and Borders Bill passes into legislation the UK Home...
S1 E7 What can English-language testing for the purposes of immigration and citizenship tell us about who counts as British today?
Should the ability to speak English be a precondition for access to rights and belonging in Britain today? What is really tested for in English-langua...