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
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...
Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, *No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023.
For the sixty thousand German Jews who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine from 1933 to 1940, migration signified radical transformations: it altered their professional and cultural lives and confronted them with a new lan...
Niamatullah Ibrahimi, *The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017
The Hazaras of Afghanistan have faced the consequences of many destructive forces that began with the formation of the Afghan monarchy in 1747.Their relationship with the Afghan state has been characterized by numerous episodes of ethnic...
