Borderline

A (now concluded) podcast for defiant global citizens. 50+ interviews exploring lives lived across borders, immigration policy and belonging.

The true citizens of nowhere

The true citizens of nowhere

Citizenship isn't belonging to one nation or a few. It's giving up a bit of the self for the collective.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
New travel rules: Brits can go play around the world... but the world is not welcome here

New travel rules: Brits can go play around the world... but the world is not welcome here

Only those vaccinated by the NHS will be spared quarantine in England. Changes once again fall short for transnational families.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee, on everything newcomers keep from the native-born

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
036 | Dina Nayeri | What immigrants never tell you

036 | Dina Nayeri | What immigrants never tell you

A wide-ranging conversation with Iranian American author Dina Nayeri on the refugee experience, what humans are entitled to and why we won’t let others have it. "There's just so much that the displaced don't tell the native-born."

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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036 extra | What immigrants never tell you: the uncut interview with Dina Nayeri

036 extra | What immigrants never tell you: the uncut interview with Dina Nayeri

"There's so much that the displaced don't tell the native-born."

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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Loving a country sneaks up on you

Loving a country sneaks up on you

"It's a melancholy feeling to be othered by the State just as I'm starting to feel like I belong here."

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Will the Brexit generation be the next Windrush scandal?

Will the Brexit generation be the next Windrush scandal?

What went wrong for Caribbean immigrants to the UK could befall Europeans a generation later. I explore past and future with Amelia Gentleman.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Is travel from amber list countries dangerous? A look at the data.

Is travel from amber list countries dangerous? A look at the data.

Are travel restrictions commensurate with the public health risk? Or are they a mildly xenophobic bit of security theatre?

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline