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S3, E4: Climate-related Displacement and International Protection
How can we best protect people displaced for environmental reasons? In this episode María José Maldonado and Natalie Jade Catanach interview Manuel Marques Pereira, He...
S3, E3: Empowering Migrant and Refugee Women to Thrive: The gendered experiences of forced migration
How are refugee experiences gendered, and what is the role of education in empowering female migrants and refugees? In this episode, Freya Thompson chats with Olivia D...
S3, E2: The Possibilities of Refugee-led Action: perspectives from Turkey
What role can refugees themselves play in responding to displacement, and how can we improve mechanisms that allow displaced communities to have an input into relief e...
S3, E1: Trampoline, an inspiring London-based café supporting Refugees’ journeys
Accessing employment is a challenge facing many refugees wanting to integrate in a new country. Trampoline is a London-based café that aims to tackle this by providing...
S2, E8: Legal aid, bureaucratic obstacles, and grassroots NGOs
In this episode, Jasmin Arciero and Oliver Nixon interview Alexa Netty, the trustee and chair of the steering committee of SolidariTee. SolidariTee is a charity that ...
S2, E7: Contrasting crises: Government responses to refugees in Calais and from Ukraine
For years, thousands of forcibly displaced people have been left in limbo in Calais, France, where they suffer from a lack of care and police crackdowns. Recently, as ...
S2, E6: Afghan evacuees in the UK: Challenges and opportunities
Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans fled to foreign countries. The UK evacuated around 18,000 people, who are ...
S2, E5 Resilience in crisis: Reflections from a Ukrainian
Little has captured our attention like the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th of this year. Constituting Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, ...
S2, E4 Working towards dignity: Perspectives from refugee social workers in Lebanon
In this podcast, Yujia Zhang invites two women, Nadia and Fatima, to talk about their stories as both refugees and social workers in Lebanon. Nadia, a third generation...
S2, E3 Persevering for peace: Understanding the challenges of an asylum journey
This podcast explores the physical and emotional challenges that arise from refugees' journeys to safety. Sam, a former refugee from Iraq, describes his experience gai...
S2, E2 Climate-induced migration in the Caribbean: Where are we now and pathways forward
In this episode, Leah Trotman chats with Pablo Escribano, the Regional Thematic Specialist at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the Americas and t...
S2, E1 Relief Chief: Insight on the refugee system from the top of the UN
Today’s theme in the Refugee Realities podcast series focuses on a birds-eye perspective of the challenges facing the global humanitarian system. And who better to spe...
S1, E12 Kaweh Beheshtizadeh's journey from asylum seeker to refugee lawyer
In this bonus episode, Kaweh Beheshtizadeh speaks to Jenifer Elmslie about his extraordinary journey from asylum seeker to refugee lawyer. Kaweh arrived in the UK in 2...
S1, E11 Digital education and displacement
In this episode, LSE Master’s student Ezgi Ilhan interviews Valentina Spinedi, Director of Student Advising at Paper Airplanes. Paper Airplanes is a fully virtual non-...
S1, E10 Advocating for refugee education
In this episode, Konstantina Mirtzani and Valeria Miglio speak with Giulia Cicoli, co-founder and Advocacy Director of Still I Rise NGO. Still I Rise was first founded...
S1, E9 Solutions for IDPs: from Geneva to Mogadishu
This podcast takes listeners to the forefront of the internal displacement issue in Somalia where Mogadishu officials are spearheading a new policy to address the need...
S1, E8 The UK government’s new plan for immigration: implications for refugees
In March 2021, the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, made headlines with the announcement of the Governments ‘New Plan for Immigration’. This ‘New Plan’ outlined the most s...
S1, E7 Women, peace, and security after Europe’s refugee ‘crisis’
In this podcast, Gabriele Canavan and Taitum Caggiano interview Dr. Aiko Holvikivi and Dr. Audrey Reeves who recently published an article titled “Women, Peace and Sec...
S1, E6 Navigating asylum as an unaccompanied minor in the UK
In this interview by MSc student in International Development, Gender and globalisation Jenifer Elmslie, Mustafa Ali discusses his experience leaving Afghanistan as an...
S1, E5 Call them by their names
In Western countries, refugees are often seen as a burden, as an indistinct mass of people threatening our “values and well-being”. In this podcast, MSc student in Gen...
S1, E4 Acting with a social purpose
In this podcast, MSc student in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies Maria Harb meets two inspirational women - Victoria Lupton and Fida Alwaer. Vict...
S1, E3 Refugee Week as a movement, not a moment
Refugees and asylum seekers are all too often seen through the narrow prism of their experiences of displacement, but this is only one part of the picture. Refugee art...
S1, E2 The human face of the climate crisis: forced migration and protection challenges
The UNHCR estimates that 90% of refugees are produced in countries that are the most vulnerable and the least prepared to adapt to the repercussions of climate change....
S1, E1 Data and migration: in discussion with IOM’s Data Analysis Centre
Inspired by the decades-long struggle to collect consistent data on international migration globally, this podcast episode explores recent data innovation efforts made...