Borderline
A (now concluded) podcast for defiant global citizens. 50+ interviews exploring lives lived across borders, immigration policy and belonging.
032 | Hassan Damluji | The century-long project to build a global nation
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What would it take to create on a planetary level the same fuzzy feelings people have for their country? Let’s start with taxes… If globalists want to build a more united world, they need to look at how nation-states did it – at a smaller scale – in the last couple
031 | Christopher Schroeder | How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon Valley
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America may be back, but the world wasn’t waiting on it. Venture capitalist Chris Schroeder travels the world to invest in emerging markets. To the entrepreneurs he meets, Silicon Valley is just one of many models, China is everywhere and South-to-South exchanges are constant. To succeed in this distributed
030 | Leah Cowan | Should we abolish borders?
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The border isn’t a line on the periphery of the country, says Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation. It is a fog that covers all of society and can descend upon you at any time if you’re an immigrant or racialized as “other.” It wasn’t always thus
029 | Tania Cernuschi | Vaccine nationalism is winning
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More than half of Covid-19 vaccines administered so far have been in high-income countries, which account for just 15% of the world population. Four out of five doses are purchased outside COVAX, the UN-backed procurement scheme that had attempted to set up fair and equal access for all countries. The
028 | Steve Taylor | The psychology of thinking beyond borders
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Strong attachment to group identity is born out of insecurity, argues psychologist Dr Steve Taylor. Psychologically healthy people feel connected to all humans and are able to think beyond borders. Could we lessen nationalistic strife by promoting psychological health? Show notes 00:29 Intro 03:17 Are humans naturally tribal?
027 | For transnational families, lockdown has no end
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The UK is reopening, but not transnational families. Visiting friends or relatives abroad is the second most frequent reason for foreign travel. It's about one in four trips out of the UK, twice the volume of business travel. Travel restrictions have reduced these trips to a trickle. For
026 | Ty McCormick | One refugee family's 30-year quest for home
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Asad Husein was born in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Today he’s a student at Princeton University. His story is a miracle of grit and luck. It didn’t have to be that hard. Asad and Marian’s family fled conflict in Somalia and found refuge in eastern
025 | Valerie Hansen | The year 1000, when globalization began
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A millenium ago, the Vikings landed in Canada, Islam spread in China and Southeast Asia was already the world’s factory. Welcome to the first globalization. Globalization isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonization and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie