LEFT/OVER Episode 18. - Speaking Asylum feat. Siobhan McGuirk
This week we're joined by film-maker and anthropologist, Siobhán McGuirk, to talk about the proposals to overhaul the UK asylum system, and how these aren't evils unique to Priti Patel. We talk about the construction of who and what a migrant is, even from supposed arbiters of accountability like the United Nations, how this construction hurts asylum seekers and the most vulnerable, and why we must be abolitionists when it comes to borders.
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Hosts: Aarjan /// Nikita
Guest: Siobhán McGuirk
Production: Sarah Sahim
Music: Cardio /// Parapar feat. Moushumi Bhowmik, Oliver Weeks, Ben Heartland and Rosalind Acton - Jessore Road
LEFT/OVER Podcast
We are online leftists trying to make sense of the surreal times we are trapped in. Every week we have conversations with esteemed guests (people who know much more than us) on a wide range of topics, from climate change to media to football to music, all within in the context of the pandemic, late capitalism and fascism, and try to work out what might be left over after it all ends. Hosted by Aarjan, produced by Connor.
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