Who do we think we are?

By Professor Michaela Benson

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From Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Windrush deportation scandal citizenship and the responsibilities of the UK government to the people of Hong Kong, it seems that citizenship and migration in Britain are never far from the headlines. Who do we think we are? explores all of this and more. Join Professor Michaela Benson and her guests as they debunk taken-for-granted understandings of who is a citizen and who is a migrant in Britain today.

Episode Date
S3 E10 Migration and the making of Global Britain
Mar 15, 2024
S3 E9 (Not so) safe routes
Feb 15, 2024
S3 E8 Fortress Britain?
Jan 18, 2024
BtH2 E2 Beyond the headlines … Care Activism with Ethel Tungohan
Dec 14, 2023
S3 E7 Families at the borders
Nov 16, 2023
BtH2 E1 Beyond the headlines … at Manchester Museum with Senna Yousef and Caitlin Nunn
Nov 10, 2023
S3 E6 Migrant Rights 2.0
Oct 12, 2023
S3 E5 Migration, diaspora, diplomacy
Sep 14, 2023
S3 E4 A New Plan for Migration?
Aug 10, 2023
S3 E3 Bye, Bye Britain
Jul 07, 2023
BONUS Interview with Elspeth Guild
Jun 22, 2023
S3 E2 Free Movement, limited
Jun 02, 2023
S3 E1 Of Kings, Songs and Migrants
May 05, 2023
[SWAP] Uncommon Sense: Security, with Daria Krivonos
Apr 21, 2023
S2 BONUS Behind the Scenes
Mar 31, 2023
S2 E10 In dialogue
Mar 24, 2023
S2 E9 East-West inequalities and the remaking of unequal Europeans
Feb 17, 2023
S2 E8 Who is a migrant?
Jan 20, 2023
BtH1 S8 Beyond the headlines … with İdil Akıncı-Pérez
Dec 23, 2022
S2 E7 European Identities from the Aliens Act 1905 to Brexit
Dec 09, 2022
BtH1 S7 Beyond the headlines … with Hannah Lewis
Nov 25, 2022
S2 E6 Imagining a new Britain, 20 years on
Nov 11, 2022
BtH1 E6 Beyond the headlines … with Cecilia Menjívar
Oct 28, 2022
S2 E5 What can we learn about what British and EU citizenship from Brexit?
Oct 14, 2022
BtH1 S5 Beyond the headlines … with Colin Yeo
Sep 30, 2022
S2 E4 What do family migration rules reveal about British citizenship today?
Sep 16, 2022
S2 E3 How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship?
Aug 19, 2022
BtH1 E4 Beyond the headlines … with Alison Phipps and Tawona Sithole
Aug 05, 2022
*EPISODE SWAP* Surviving Society E147 Aleema Gray: Notes on the Rastafari Movement in Britain
Jul 22, 2022
BtH1 E3 Beyond the Headlines...with Zrinka Bralo
Jul 08, 2022
S2 E2 What does British citizenship have to do with Global Social Inequalities?
Jun 24, 2022
BtH1 E2 Beyond the headlines … with Aaron Winter
Jun 10, 2022
S2 E1 What does the Nationality and Borders Act mean for British citizenship?
May 27, 2022
BtH1 E1 Beyond the Headlines ... with Dr Yvonne Su
May 13, 2022
S1 E10 What can we learn about British citizenship from the Chagos Islanders?
Mar 18, 2022
S1 E9 What do the children denied the right to nationality through their British parents tell us about citizenship?
Feb 25, 2022
S1 E8 What do Clause 9 (Nationality and Borders Bill) and the history of citizenship deprivation in the UK tell us about Britishness today?
Feb 04, 2022
S1 E7 What can English-language testing for the purposes of immigration and citizenship tell us about who counts as British today?
Jan 21, 2022
S1 E6 What can the Hong Kong BN(O) visa tell us about borders and belonging in Britain today?
Jan 07, 2022
S1 E5 What can the UK’s citizenship test tell us about the shape of Britishness today?
Dec 10, 2021
S1 E4 How the British Nationality Act 1981 laid the foundations for a stateless population within Britain's borders
Nov 26, 2021
S1 E3 How the Commonwealth Immigration Acts laid the foundations for the Windrush Deportation Scandal
Nov 12, 2021
BONUS: Talking about citizenship in ‘Global Britain’
Nov 09, 2021
S1 E2 What can the development of immigration legislation tell us about citizenship in Britain?
Oct 29, 2021
S1 E1 Why we need to look at history to understand British citizenship today?
Oct 15, 2021
TRAILER: Who do we think we are?
Sep 22, 2021