Adrian Favell on Eurostars and Eurocities, feat. Sarah Kunz

Borders & Belonging

Borders & Belonging
Adrian Favell on Eurostars and Eurocities, feat. Sarah Kunz
Feb 10, 2026 Season 4 Episode 7
CERC Migration

Adrian Favell reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped his work on mobility, free movement and Europe's so called borderless future.

He is joined by Sarah Kunz, whose research examines how privilege, race and postcolonial histories shape who gets to move and how migration labels such as migrant, expat and mobile professional reflect power and inequality. Together, they discuss why studying privileged migration matters, how European mobility has changed over time, and how movement is increasing even as access to it becomes more unequal.

Guests: Adrian Favell, Professor of Social and Political Theory and Founding Director of the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork; Sarah Kunz, Lecturer in Migration Studies, University of Essex.

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