Borderline
A (now concluded) podcast for defiant global citizens. 50+ interviews exploring lives lived across borders, immigration policy and belonging.
023 | Selda Shamloo | When your passport locks you in
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Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport. For many of us, our passport is a symbol of our wanderlust, a badge of our freedom. It’
This is life on an ostracised passport
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Iran: When your passport locks you in, with Selda Shamloo (episode 23)
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Episode 23: Selda Shamloo on passport privilege and life in Iran
022 | Ian Dunt | Liberalism is in a fight for its life
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If there is one political philosophy that allows our global lives to exist, it’s liberalism. There is no freedom of movement without freedom. There is no belonging to multiple tribes if the individual does not supersede the collective. There is no room for our weird, compound identities if we’
Liberalism is in a fight for its life
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Episode 22 with Ian Dunt, British political journalist
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021 | Amanda Bates | The Black expat
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People of all kinds – yes, people of color too – go abroad to live, love and learn. They study a language, they follow a partner, they go just for the heck of it or for a midlife crisis. Sometimes, they flee war or poverty, but not usually. Tired of not seeing
Are you an expat or an immigrant?
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Episode 21: Amanda Bates, founder of The Black Expat
