Beast at Every Threshold
Meet Natalie Wee, a queer poet who writes about migration, borders, papers, and interrogates what it means to be a queer, racialized person in Canada. We talk about what it is like to live with precar...
30 Sep 202233min
Deepan's Citizenship
Meet Deepan Budlakoti. Born and raised in Canada, Deepan had a Canadian birth certificate and Canadian passport. Then one day he was told he was not a citizen and overnight he became a foreigner and s...
29 Mar 202250min
Refugee Resettlement and Law's Borders
Meet Dr. Shauna Labman, the expert on refugee resettlement in Canada. She is an award winning author of two books: Crossing Law's Border: Canada's Refugee Resettlement Program and Strangers to Neighbo...
24 Mar 20221h 2min
Writing, Identity and Rats
Meet Carrianne Leung, Jenny Heijun Wills and Lindsay Wong, all award winning authors in Canada. We talk about the craft of writing, the fluidity and complication of identity as writers, and how migrat...
3 Mar 20221h 10min
Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread
Meet author Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread. Her debut novel was longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize, finalist for CBC's 2021 Canada Reads competition, the 2021 Lambda Literary W...
20 Des 202136min
Kashif's Captivity
Meet Kashif Ali, a criminalized migrant who was detained in Canada for seven years. Kashif talks about his addition, how his addiction led to his criminalization and repeated imprisonment, and how his...
19 Nov 202150min
Detention and the Limits of Legal Remedies
Meet Jared Will, an immigration and refugee lawyer, who is well known, among other things, for representing persons in immigration detention. We talk about the shortcomings of the immigration detentio...
22 Okt 202142min
The Deported
Meet Alvin Brown, a Black man deported from Canada. Alvin Brown was adopted as a child and grew up in Canada. Unbeknownst to him, Alvin was not a Canadian citizen and had never acquired citizenship. A...
7 Okt 202138min
