Migrations: A World on the Move

Crossing Foodways

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT

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. Philip and Harry are editors of the book, which features immigrant restaurateurs, chefs, scholars, food writers, and activists. Although this book has its origins in the pandemic, the relevance and impact of the stories within go far beyond it.

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Crossing Racial Borders

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT

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. Today’s episode covers a broad scope of Achiume’s work, including colonialism, human rights, and migration. This episode is a podcast mashup with Ufahamu Africa, a podcast on life and politics on the African continent, and Eleanor is joined by the show's co-host, Rachel Beatty Riedl, for the interview.

Crossing Cultures

Mon, 08 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT

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 Sikhs are one of more than 50 different immigrant communities among the town's residents, but they've played an important role in shaping the region. As you'll hear in this episode, the story of this community is one about the search for stability, building and sustaining a sense of home in a new place, and the crossing of cultures.

Our guests are Iqbal Singh, vice president of the town's gurdwara, Elena Carletti, the mayor of Novellara, and Barbara Bertolani, a sociologist studying Sikh communities in Italy.

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Out Now: The Next Monsoon

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT

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.

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Crossing Dance

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT

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. In our conversation, we view migration through the lens of dance and recognize it as an embodied experience. To interview Momar, Eleanor is joined by Amy Shuman, professor emerita at OSU. Her formative work in narrative studies includes books, articles, and collaborations on human rights and political asylum. Momar, Amy, and Eleanor talk broadly about human rights and migration in postcolonial contexts, ideas of how human rights operate and fail, and what that has to do with the crossing of borders.

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Crossing Memory

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT

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. Eleanor and Elena spoke with the director of the archive, Natalia Cangi, and researcher Giorgia Alù for this episode about the migrant stories present in the archive.

Thanks to Isabella Corletto for her translation and voice acting for this episode.

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Crossing Language

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:00:00 GMT

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. Several episodes this season will look closely at crossing in the context of Italy, exploring how language and culture cross borders, how the focus on historical migrations helps us understand the present, and more. For these episodes, host Eleanor Paynter partners with colleague and guest host Elena Bellina, adjunct professor of Italian at New York University.

Today's conversation is with multilingual writers Ubah Cristina Ali Farah and Amara Lakhous, whose work has been shaped by their own crossings.

Bonus: Refuge, Refusal, Rights

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:00:00 GMT

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. We talked to Lamis and Rebecca last fall on Cornell’s campus after an event where they presented from their new books.

With this episode, we’re rounding out our season on waiting. Thank you for listening as we have reflected on experiences of limbo from the U.S.-Mexico border, to the Underground Railroad, to Palestinian camps, to Tibetan exile here in Ithaca, NY. Limbo and questions of time haunt nearly every conversation about border crossing and asylum. You’ll hear some of that nuance in our conversation today.

Waiting in Exile

Mon, 16 May 2022 12:00:00 GMT

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. After learning that the North American branch of the Dalai Lama's personal monastery is in Ithaca, Bernstein took a deep dive into the history of Tibet that includes conversations with members of the Tibetan community in Ithaca, a visit to the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, and an interview with Cornell professor Allen Carlson.

Thank you to the Ithaca Tibetan community for sharing their stories. And thank you to Daniel Bernstein for producing this episode with help from journalist Molly O'Toole in her fall 2021 class, "American Dream: Journalism, Politics, and Identity in U.S. Immigration Policy."

Guest Producer

Daniel Bernstein '23 is a government major in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, pursuing minors in history and Latin American studies. He has worked in journalism ever since becoming a founding editor of Colonial Elementary School's Colonial Times in the fourth grade, and today he serves as a columnist and senior editor for the Cornell Daily Sun. He hopes to continue telling meaningful stories about people, policy, and ideas throughout his career.

Waiting for the Future

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT

"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. The conversation is guided by four of Yousif's poems from his book Writing the Camp and we talk about themes of time, memory, and the camp.

Waiting for Justice

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT

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. In this conversation, we talk about the stories of freedom seekers and the many forms that waiting can take.

Waiting at the Border

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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. Our guests are experts on the U.S.-Mexico border, and their work shows us how experiences of waiting, urgency, and delay shape the borderlands. Our conversation draws on practices of journalism, ethnography, and forms of activism and humanitarian work in the borderlands, highlighting how quickly things can change, but also how they stay the same.

Season 2: Waiting

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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?

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Bonus: Race and Racism Across Borders with Nanjala Nyabola

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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. Join us for this conversation on migration, vaccine nationalism, home, and more, also featuring Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl of the Ufahamu Africa podcast.

Dispossession

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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. Jordan works in the Finger Lakes region of New York, studying the effects of institutions like Cornell on the Indigenous populations of the region. Jordahl is an activist and ally helping to bring awareness to the harm caused by wall construction at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Surveillance

Thu, 13 May 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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. Also joining us is Lorenzo Pezzani, whose work on migration in the Mediterranean Sea asks unique questions about witnessing and narrative.

Global Racial Justice

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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. (A note that this episode contains a mention of sexual violence, in a poem read at the end of the episode.)

Climate

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:00:00 GMT

We bring migration scholars Filiz Garip and Ingrid Boas into conversation this week to talk about climate. They teach us about the ways that climate affects human movements, discuss the politics of the term "climate refugees," and explain how gradual weather change compares to extreme events.

Pandemics

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT

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 issues. Subscribe now so you don't miss a single episode.

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