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Borderline

One Lane Bridge (Isabelle Roughol)

Borderline is a podcast for defiant global citizens covering geopolitics, immigration and lives that straddle borders, with host Isabelle Roughol.

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41:13

Manifesto for a new nomadism, with Felix Marquardt

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2021/09/09

Movement is core to the human experience and to the emancipation of ambitious young people all over the world. Leaving home – really leaving – is the final step of one's education, says Felix Marquardt, author of The New Nomads. But globetrotters must leave another place – La La Land, the magical world where their privilege isolates them from the world as it really is for most of humanity. And just as important as the moment we leave, is the moment we come home. For the first episode of the

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46:00

[Extra] LinkedIn Live: How to make remote, hybrid and...

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2021/07/09

Tips from a digital nomad and a global team manager on how to work from anywhere successfully. (Audio from a LinkedIn livestream on 7 July 2021)See it on LinkedIn. See it on Youtube. ★ Support this podcast ★

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48:41

What immigrants never tell you, with Dina Nayeri

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2021/07/06

Refugees are modern Scheherazades. They trade their story for another chance at life. The sultan is an indifferent asylum officer behind her desk, a well-meaning charity worker or a hostile native citizen. But so much truth goes untold. The exhausting expectations of gratitude, the long wait that douses your inner fire, the battle for dignity and the big impact of small acts… Iranian American novelist Dina Nayeri lifts the veil in The Ungrateful Refugee, her first memoir, weaving her

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46:01

The unkept promises of the Windrush scandal, with...

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2021/06/22

Through dogged reporting in The Guardian, Amelia Gentleman showed that British residents and citizens who had arrived from the Caribbean in the 1950s and 60s had been mistakenly classified as unauthorized immigrants. That came to be known as the Windrush Scandal. Three years on, I caught up with Amelia Gentleman ahead of Windrush Day to talk about its aging victims, the compensation scheme and the Home Office’s promises of reform. And in the waning days of the EU settlement scheme, we ask:

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41:50

Wtf is going on inside the Home Office? with Daniel...

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2021/06/08

How can one institution be so universally criticised, not just by the immigrants and citizens who at one point or another must use its services, but by all those who encounter it, whether lawyers, judges, activists, journalists, or even those who work there. Daniel Trilling, a journalist who has been covering immigration for a decade, spent six months investigating for The Guardian the organisational culture and history of the Home Office to answer this simple question: wtf is going on

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33:17

Raising global teens, with Dr Anisha Abraham

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2021/05/25

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 even harder. Mental health, belonging, conflict, rites of passage… A pediatrician who specializes in multicultural teenagers helps parents navigate a challenging decade. 00:32 Intro02:26 What is a teenager?07:00 Inside the teenage brain09:38 Global living makes adolescence trickier11:24 The importance of telling your

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35:12

[Replay] The century-long project to build a global...

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2021/05/18

If globalists want to build a more united world, they need to look at how nation-states did it – at a smaller scale – in the last couple centuries, says Hassan Damluji, author of The Responsible Globalist. It’s a 100-year project, but one we can start now with concrete steps, he adds. Note: this episode is a rerun of a June 2020 interview, in a new edit. 00:00 Introduction01:42 How the nation brought people together04:48 Nationalism vs. patriotism vs. globalism08:45 How to create a global

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46:04

How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon...

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2021/05/11

Venture capitalist Chris Schroeder travels the world to invest in emerging markets. To the entrepreneurs he meets, Silicon Valley is just one of many models, China is everywhere and South-to-South exchanges are constant. To succeed in this distributed world takes humility, agility and a certain comfort with the uncomfortable. Show notes00:00 Intro01:33 Can you travel over Zoom?03:11 What's been on global entrepreneurs' minds?05:51 How technology unleashed talent08:01 Silicon Valley isn't

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36:53

Should we abolish borders? with Leah Cowan

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2021/05/04

The border isn’t a line on the periphery of the country, says Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation. It is a fog that covers all of society and can descend upon you at any time if you’re an immigrant or racialized as “other.” It wasn’t always thus and it can be ended, she insists. 00:43 Intro02:06 What are borders for?04:12 Borders, capitalism and racism08:41 Did borders ever truly disappear?10:15 The border isn't on the periphery, it's everywhere13:07 Immigration enforcement is invisible to

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28:28

Vaccine nationalism is winning, with Tania Cernuschi

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2021/04/26

More than half of Covid-19 vaccines administered so far have been in high-income countries, which account for just 15% of the world population. Four out of five doses are purchased outside COVAX, the UN-backed procurement scheme that had attempted to set up fair and equal access for all countries. The most successful vaccination campaigns, in the US, UK and Israel, were unabashed us-first operations. Has vaccine nationalism definitely won? I caught up with Tania Cernuschi, team lead for

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31:48

The psychology of borderless thinking, with Steve Taylor

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2021/04/20

Nationalist or globalist? It may come down to psychological health.Strong attachment to group identity is born out of insecurity, explains psychologist Dr Steve Taylor. Psychologically healthy people feel connected to all humans and are able to think beyond borders. Could we lessen nationalistic stife by promoting psychological health? Show notes00:29 Intro03:17 Are humans naturally tribal? 05:04 When humans developed individualism08:55 "Psychologically healthy people are not

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22:28

For transnational families, lockdown has no end

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2021/04/13

The UK is reopening, but not transnational families. Visiting friends or relatives abroad is the second most frequent reason for foreign travel. It's about one in four trips out of the UK, twice the volume of business travel. Travel restrictions have reduced these trips to a trickle. For millions who love across borders, spending time together has been impossible for most of the past year. Even illegal. Yet, media coverage of travel restrictions has had a near pathological focus on foreign

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41:18

One family’s 30-year quest for home, with Ty McCormick

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2021/04/06

Asad and Marian’s family fled conflict in Somalia and found refuge in eastern Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. That was in 1991. Three decades later, the family still hasn’t been allowed to build a permanent home together anywhere. Their story, like a novel you couldn’t make up, is that of the broken refugee resettlement system and of responsibilities no one wants to take. American journalist Ty McCormick tells it. ★ Support this podcast ★

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36:56

The Year 1000: When globalisation began, with Dr...

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2021/03/30

Globalisation isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonisation and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie Hansen, professor of Chinese history at Yale University, points to the year 1000 as one early watershed era when the world expanded and became smaller at once. Trade routes criss-crossed the Americas, Islamic scholars mapped the globe and major religions spread across Asia. In large cities, exotic merchants set up shop, black and white

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38:50

"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system,"...

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2021/03/23

In this conversation, Zoe Gardner, policy advisor at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, covers: How immigration exposes women to a higher risk of violence and abuseWhy policing and immigration enforcement must be decoupledWTF “no recourse to public funds” and the “hostile environment” areHow legal migrants are pushed into undocumented statusGetting your COVID vaccine even if you’re undocumentedThe exodus of European migrants from the UK & the post-Brexit settlement

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39:03

Iran: When your passport locks you in, with Selda...

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2021/03/16

Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport.For many of us, our passport is a symbol of our wanderlust, a badge of our freedom. It’s been gathering dust for the past year and we can’t wait to get it out. But if you’re Iranian or from any other country at the bottom of the passport power rankings, pandemic or not, it won’t get you anywhere. The Passport Index

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38:19

Liberalism is in a fight for its life, with Ian Dunt

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2021/03/09

Liberalism – a belief in the primacy of individual liberty – has built modern democracies. Now it’s in an existential crisis, caught between rising authoritarianism and identity politics. I look back and ahead for liberals with British political journalist Ian Dunt.00:14 Intro01:24 Another TCK childhood04:19 Why write a book that goes back 400 years?08:48 What is a liberal?14:16 How liberalism failed to stand for the liberty of most individuals19:28 Identity politics are both a threat and a

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40:13

Expatriating while Black, with Amanda Bates

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2021/03/02

People of all kinds – yes, people of color too – go abroad to live, love and learn. They study a language, they follow a partner, they go just for the heck of it or for a midlife crisis. Sometimes, they flee war or poverty, but not usually. Tired of not seeing her story represented, Amanda Bates created The Black Expat – a media centering the stories of Black global citizens. In this episode, she discusses her TCK childhood between Cameroon and the US, the challenges of life in-between and

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41:09

Why every child should spend a year abroad, with...

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2021/02/23

Exchange students aren’t just the butt of jokes in American teen comedies. They’re young people going through one of the most transformative experiences life has to offer. Expanding it to more children – dare we say, to all children? – could change not just them, but the world.Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia was dropped in Iowa from the newly broken-up Soviet Union in 1993. Borderline host Isabelle Roughol landed in New Jersey two weeks before 9/11. They reminisce and reflect on the

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34:22

Being British and European after Brexit, with Peter...

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2021/02/16

When they narrowly escaped the Third Reich and found refuge in Britain, Peter Gumbel’s parents and grandparents cast off their German Jewish heritage to become a perfectly British family. Cricket, Marmite and Church of England. Two generations later, deeply unsettled by Brexit, Gumbel reaches out to Germany again in search of a new passport – and a reckoning with history. In conversation with Isabelle Roughol, Gumbel explores the fragility of identity and who we still are when we can no

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