Dialogues in Refugee Studies
This podcast features scholarly interviews with professors specializing in refugee research, authors of recent monographs in migration studies and writers of memoirs on refugee experiences. It offers insightful academic dialogues on a variety of topics. It intends to reach students, practitioners and laypersons.
Dialogues in Refugee Studies
Latest Episodes
Jessie Cox, *Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music and Unthought Voices*. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2025.
In this monograph, scholar, composer, and musician Jessie Cox highlights the experiences of Black Swiss individuals through the mediums of sound and music. Being a Black Swiss himself, Cox affirms the importance of Black life expressed through ...
Magdalena Slavkova, *Conversion, Leadership and Identity of the Evangelical Roma in Bulgaria*. Paderborn, Germany: Brill Schöningh, 2025.
In her groundbreaking research, Magdalena Slavkova combines historical and ethnographic viewpoints, making a notable contribution to our understanding of Romani evangelicalism. This phenomenon emerged in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 20th ce...
Yianni Cartledge, *Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building, and Integration*. London: Anthem Press, 2026.
This scholarly monograph investigates a relatively unexamined diaspora that traces its roots back to the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria is a small, isolated island located close to the Turkish coastline.It has a rich and independ...
Maxim Matusevich, *Six Trains of No Return: Short Stories and Novellas*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
This book features twelve short stories and novellas that delve into immigrant narratives and dislocations that are both deeply personal and universally significant. These tales recount past lives and loves, memories that are both delicate and ...
Alice Neikirk, *The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth: Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance*. Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 2023.
This ethnography examines the experiences of Bhutanese refugees who fled their homeland, spent time in camps in Nepal, and eventually settled in the markedly different culture of Australia. During this process, they come to understand how human...
