Who do we think we are?
By Professor Michaela Benson
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. Join Professor Michaela Benson and her guests as they debunk taken-for-granted understandings of who is a citizen and who is a migrant in Britain today.
Latest episode
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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 significance of foreign policy within migration governance help us in understanding the post-Brexit migrati… -
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? We cover all of this and more, as we’re joined by Colin Yeo to discuss A New Plan for Migration? -
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 leave? Plus: why does it matter that we remember, as French-Algerian sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad stress… -
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 insights into the development of the EU's free movement regime, from its early form as a... -
S3 E2 Free Movement, limited
What is Freedom of Movement? And what role does it play in making and EU-wide imagined community? Listen along as we discuss what we can learn about the opportunities and limits of Free Movement in Europe and consider the experiences of those who los… -
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 at how migrants understand major cultural events. -
[SWAP] Uncommon Sense: Security, with Daria Krivonos
Why does the security of the privileged few depend on the insecurity of others? What’s achieved by calling something a “security threat”? And why are borders all around us – not just at the edges of nation states? With sociologist Daria Krivonos. -
S2 BONUS Behind the Scenes
Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in making Who do we think we are? Here’s a little bonus episode where we make audible the impetus behind the podcast, the day-to-day work of compiling an episode, some of our stand out moments and the stor… -
S2 E10 In dialogue
For the final episode of Season 2, it’s a love in! We bring you a set of conversations about what Who do we think we are? achieves through dialogues with archival and social science research around migration and citizenship in the UK and beyond. List… -
S2 E9 East-West inequalities and the remaking of unequal Europeans
What does the characterisation of those from Europe’s east considered by politicians and in some corners of the media as migrants despite their rights to free movement as EU citizens make visible about the politics of migration? What is distinctive a…
