Episodes

  • On the Move and Queer: Forcibly Displaced and Ultra-Vulnerable
    Apr 17 2024

    This talk is given by Sandra McEvoy, a Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Boston University.


    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠⁠⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation.

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    16 mins
  • ‘We Are Here Because You Were There’: Techno-Racism and Exclusion at Digital Borders
    Apr 17 2024

    This talk is given by Petra Molnar, A lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights as well as a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.


    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠⁠⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation.

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    16 mins
  • Trans-Refusals
    Apr 17 2024

    This talk is given by Martha Balaguera Cuervo, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.


    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠⁠⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation.

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    20 mins
  • Securing the US-Mexico Border, Externalization Policies, and the Impact on Migrant Journeys
    Nov 1 2023

    This talk is given by Caroline Miles, a professor of literatures and cultural studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.


    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. 

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    20 mins
  • The Colonial Origins of Migration Management in Kenya
    Nov 1 2023

    This talk is given by Nicholas R. Micinski, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Maine.



    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. 


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    31 mins
  • The Political Economy of EU Border and Migration Management
    Nov 1 2023

    This talk is given by Kaija Schilde an assistant professor of political science at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies.



    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. 

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    22 mins
  • Immigration Fraud as Resistance
    Oct 4 2023

    This talk is given by Patti Tamara Lenard, a professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa.



    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. 


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    23 mins
  • The Lawful Lawlessness of Borders
    Oct 4 2023

    This talk is given by Ayten Gündoğdu, an associate professor of political science at Barnard College and Columbia University


    Check out the website for more information about the Sawyer Seminar Series and the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement: ⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/sawyer-seminar-series/ ⁠


    This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. 


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    26 mins