Borderline

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

How to move around the world, raise a teenager and not go crazy

How to move around the world, raise a teenager and not go crazy

Hormones, acne, heartbreak… and figuring out what country you even belong to. Adolescence is even trickier when you’re a global kid.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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Beyoncé, Nicolas Cage and the 1335 other people worthy of fast-track UK immigration

Beyoncé, Nicolas Cage and the 1335 other people worthy of fast-track UK immigration

An immigration system that promises to reliably pick winners can only pick those who've already won.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
033 | Anisha Abraham | Raising global teenagers

033 | Anisha Abraham | Raising global teenagers

Hormones, acne, heartbreak… and figuring out what country you even belong to. Adolescence is even trickier when you’re a global kid. Kids who grow up between cultures develop invaluable skills. But having to figure out one’s cultural identity, on top of the usual teenage challenges, can make adolescence

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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How to raise global teens and be kinder to migrants / Members' letter #15

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Welcome to the new Borderline

Welcome to the new Borderline

Dear listeners, readers and members, I am chuffed to bits (yes, the Brits got me) to be introducing the new home of Borderline at www.borderlinepod.com. This started out as a because-I'm-bored lockdown project. Unoriginal, I know. But Borderline has bigger ambitions now. This new site is

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
"You don’t have to be a globalist to want other countries to stop sucking away your tax base"

"You don’t have to be a globalist to want other countries to stop sucking away your tax base"

An update on episodes 3 [https://borderline.ghost.io/episode-03-what-globalists-should-learn-from-nationalists-with-hassan-damluji/] & 32 [https://borderline.ghost.io/episode-32-hassan-damluji/] with Hassan Damluji I asked Hassan Damluji, deputy director for the Middle East at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of The Responsible Globalist, for some updated thoughts on two topics

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
A passport is the best and most loaded thing you own

A passport is the best and most loaded thing you own

I can count my life in passports. The one that sent me to live abroad for the first time and propelled me into adulthood. The one that saw me through my 20s on  routes like MCI-DEN-LAX-TPE-PNH. The one where I'm a grown up tech exec spending more time

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline

"These are our neighbours, let them go!" / Members' letter #14

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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