Borders & Belonging

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Migration futures: Imagining migration governance in 2050

2026-10-2743:05

In this episode, we're looking ahead to the 2050s and imagining what the future of migration might look like. From climate change to shifting populations, we're exploring what forces could shape how and why people move in the future. This look forward helps us challenge our assumptions and prepare for possibilities we might otherwise overlook. We don't have a crystal ball to tell us exactly what the future holds, but we can look at what's happening today to imagine what might come next. Narra...

Borders & Belonging - Season 5 Trailer

2026-10-2201:12

Welcome to Season 5 of Borders & Belonging — the podcast that explores migration through bold research, new ideas, and stories that connect those findings to the real world. This season, we’re exploring spaces where migration and digital technologies collide. As conversations about AI take over popular discourse, we’re taking a step back to see how the ever expanding menu of advanced digital technologies is being used by migrants, civil society, and governments to facilitate, restrict, an...

The Link4skills Navigator and Demographic modelling, feat. Sandra Leitner and Michaela Potančoková

2026-06-3033:16

In this bonus episode, Sandra Leitner and Michaela Potančoková unpack the logic behind labour force modelling and what it reveals about Europe's demographic and migration future. Drawing on the Link4Skills Navigator, a tool built to map labour market data, skills partnerships, and demographic trends across countries, they discuss why migration is not a panacea for population aging, how Germany's long-declining fertility rates are quietly driving one of the EU's most urgent labour shorta...

Anna Triandafyllidou on migration governance, feat. Letizia Palumbo

2026-04-2140:46

From growing up in a changing Greece to becoming one of the leading voices in migration research, Anna Triandafyllidou reflects on how her work on migration governance, identity and belonging took shape. She is joined by Letizia Palumbo, whose work on labour and exploitation brings into focus how policies shape and often constrain the everyday realities of migrant life. Together, they discuss why migration policies often fail to reflect lived realities, and how labour systems and identity nar...

Nina Glick Schiller on transnationalism, feat. Karina Quintanilha

2026-04-0741:22

What happens when migration can no longer be understood within the borders of a single nation-state? Nina Glick Schiller reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped her pioneering work on transnationalism and the power structures that shape mobility. She is joined by Karina Quintanilha, whose research explores how law, labour and inequality shape migrant lives across local and global scales. Together, they discuss why migrants are never simply “between” places and how transnational tie...

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