https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/migrant-ethnographies--6591757enEducationCopyright Migrant Ethnographieshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8f777b7d652d6a55418a1acb4d38a341.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/migrant-ethnographies--6591757Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:57:19 +0000Migrant EthnographiesMigrant Ethnographiesfeeds@spreaker.comThrough stories, practices, and grounded theories, Migrant Ethnographies explores the lived realities of migration and the evolving journey of ethnographic research. Each podcast episode is recorded by a Concordia University graduate student who works...false34e10004-d322-5093-a8b1-4793ad5f349bepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-7-david-austin-speaks-on-moving-against-the-system-the-1968-congress-of-black-writers-and-the-making-of-global-consciousness--75266340Purchase the book from Between the Lines Books: https://btlbooks.com/book/moving-against-the-system]]>d05163c9-8828-40a1-95fe-2c04cda5cf93Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:00:19 +0000Migrant EthnographiesA conversation between historian David Austin and community activist/graduate student, Stefan Christoff about the 1968 Congress of Black Writers in Montréal. David speaks about the community-driven research process surrounding his book, Moving Against...Purchase the book from Between the Lines Books: https://btlbooks.com/book/moving-against-the-system]]>3601falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-6-palestinian-music-in-exile-a-conversation-with-dr-louis-brehony--75266337]]>aac97b30-65e5-4487-9f02-b2798b9e6986Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:27:02 +0000Migrant EthnographiesGuillaume Jabbour speaks with author and musician Dr. Louis Brehony about Palestinian music in exile.The conversation centers on Palestinian musical traditions, displacement, and cultural survival across the diaspora, drawing on Brehony's research and...]]>3935false6fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-5-a-practice-of-hope-the-arts-in-migrant-justice-in-discussion-with-author-and-organizer-mostafa-henaway--752663414d4c7552-57b7-4e8f-8377-744c93393142Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:09:55 +0000Migrant EthnographiesKoby Rogers Hall speaks with author and activist Mostafa Henaway about his book Essential Work, Disposable Workers: Migration, Capitalism and Class.The conversation centers on migrant labour, capitalism, and class struggle, drawing on Henaway’s...3437falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-4-how-do-you-learn-the-movements-that-steal-yourself-to-freedom-a-conversation-on-museums-and-migration-with-curator-abigail-celis-a--75266342About the Guests:Abigail E. Celis is a curator and scholar working in decolonial art history and museum studies. Her research examines migration, race, and the ethics of exhibition, with a focus on how museums produce knowledge through objects and their movement across borders.Cosmo Whyte is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, installation, and sculpture. His work engages migration, Black diaspora, and memory, often exploring fugitivity and opacity as responses to colonial and archival capture.About the Host:Katya Korableva is a social researcher and curator working across the social sciences and the arts. She is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University, with her research focusing on memory, critical migration studies, and the ethics of representing conflict-induced migration.Podcast Theme Music:Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcasttheme music. Share your comments:We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠Special thanks to Concordia University andthe IRMS:Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast, to the Ethnography Lab for studio access, and to the Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.]]>47eb9124-c067-418b-a231-08980331120cFri, 27 Feb 2026 18:36:03 +0000Migrant EthnographiesKatya Korableva speaks with curator Abigail E. Celis and artist Cosmo Whyte about The Catalog of Speculative Translations, Act II: Fugitivities; an exhibition presented at UdeM Gallery. The conversation centers on African material cultures displaced...About the Guests:Abigail E. Celis is a curator and scholar working in decolonial art history and museum studies. Her research examines migration, race, and the ethics of exhibition, with a focus on how museums produce knowledge through objects and their movement across borders.Cosmo Whyte is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, installation, and sculpture. His work engages migration, Black diaspora, and memory, often exploring fugitivity and opacity as responses to colonial and archival capture.About the Host:Katya Korableva is a social researcher and curator working across the social sciences and the arts. She is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University, with her research focusing on memory, critical migration studies, and the ethics of representing conflict-induced migration.Podcast Theme Music:Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcasttheme music. Share your comments:We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠Special thanks to Concordia University andthe IRMS:Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast, to the Ethnography Lab for studio access, and to the Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.]]>2439false4fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-3-on-the-arabs-and-wayuu-people-in-colombia-a-brief-history-of-contraband-and-the-end-of-the-xx-century-in-the-colombian-caribbean--75266343⁠ 
About the Host: A Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia with a background in anthropology and history, Franklin explores themes of migration, cultural identity, and displacement. As a Wayuu Indigenous descendant and experienced podcaster, his work combines personal narratives with interdisciplinary inquiry. 
Podcast Theme Music: Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcast theme music.  
Share your comments: We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠ 
Special thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS: Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast, to the Ethnography Lab for studio access, and to the Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project. ]]>d72c23b0-449d-4f7f-b2df-a3a55d173023Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:04:53 +0000Migrant EthnographiesThis episode follows Franklin Reynel Bonivento van Grieken as he narrates two connected stories from his family history. Franklin guides listeners through his mother Asseneth’s moves from La Guajira to Medellín and then Bogotá, placing her experiences...⁠ 
About the Host: A Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia with a background in anthropology and history, Franklin explores themes of migration, cultural identity, and displacement. As a Wayuu Indigenous descendant and experienced podcaster, his work combines personal narratives with interdisciplinary inquiry. 
Podcast Theme Music: Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcast theme music.  
Share your comments: We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠ 
Special thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS: Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast, to the Ethnography Lab for studio access, and to the Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project. ]]>1441falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-2-imperialism-memory-and-the-evolving-meanings-of-iraqi-identity-in-exile--68441843Together Benin and Dr. Saleh discuss imperialism, memory, authenticity, and the evolving meanings of Iraqi identity in exile, reflecting on how ethnographic research can provide a critical inquiry into displacement and belonging.

About the Guest:
Zainab Saleh is an anthropologist and associate professor at Haverford College. Her work focuses on empire, colonialism, migration, diaspora, and the ways power shapes subjectivity, belonging, and knowledge production. Across her work, Saleh emphasizes how imperial and colonial entanglements shape experiences of displacement and how people create networks of resistance and imagine alternative futures. She is the author of Return to Ruin, which won the 2022 Arab American Book Awards. Saleh’s new book project, Political Undesirables, explores citizenship, deportation, and the legacies of colonialism in Iraq and is set to be released on December 9th, 2025.

Links and resources:
⁠⁠https://www.haverford.edu/users/zsaleh⁠⁠
⁠⁠https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/return-ruin⁠⁠
⁠https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/political-undesirables⁠

About the Host:
Benin Alman is a ⁠Masters student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her thesis explores the collective memory of Iraqi Rafha refugees and how it intersects with power and identity. Her work is informed by postcolonial, migration, and Middle Eastern studies.

Podcast Theme Music:
Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcast theme music.

Share your comments:
We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠

Special thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS:
Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast and to Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/68441843Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:31:59 +0000Migrant EthnographiesIn this episode of Migrant Ethnographies, Benin Alman speaks with anthropologist Dr. Zainab Saleh about her ethnography Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia. Through life histories and accounts of Iraqi exiles in London, Dr. Saleh...Together Benin and Dr. Saleh discuss imperialism, memory, authenticity, and the evolving meanings of Iraqi identity in exile, reflecting on how ethnographic research can provide a critical inquiry into displacement and belonging.

About the Guest:
Zainab Saleh is an anthropologist and associate professor at Haverford College. Her work focuses on empire, colonialism, migration, diaspora, and the ways power shapes subjectivity, belonging, and knowledge production. Across her work, Saleh emphasizes how imperial and colonial entanglements shape experiences of displacement and how people create networks of resistance and imagine alternative futures. She is the author of Return to Ruin, which won the 2022 Arab American Book Awards. Saleh’s new book project, Political Undesirables, explores citizenship, deportation, and the legacies of colonialism in Iraq and is set to be released on December 9th, 2025.

Links and resources:
⁠⁠https://www.haverford.edu/users/zsaleh⁠⁠
⁠⁠https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/return-ruin⁠⁠
⁠https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/political-undesirables⁠

About the Host:
Benin Alman is a ⁠Masters student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her thesis explores the collective memory of Iraqi Rafha refugees and how it intersects with power and identity. Her work is informed by postcolonial, migration, and Middle Eastern studies.

Podcast Theme Music:
Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcast theme music.

Share your comments:
We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠

Special thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS:
Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast and to Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.]]>3382false12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-2-imperialism-memory-and-the-evolving-meanings-of-iraqi-identity-in-exile--75266345⁠https://www.haverford.edu/users/zsaleh⁠⁠https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/return-ruin⁠ https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/political-undesirablesAbout the Host:Benin Alman is a Masters student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her thesis explores the collective memory of Iraqi Rafha refugees and how it intersects with power and identity. Her work is informed by postcolonial, migration, and Middle Eastern studies.Podcast Theme Music:Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcast theme music. Share your comments:We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at migrantethnographies@gmail.comSpecial thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS:Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast and to Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.
]]>4623c185-8a33-447f-aa6a-eadc94d4acf4Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:56:49 +0000Migrant EthnographiesIn this episode of Migrant Ethnographies, Benin Alman speaks with anthropologist Dr. Zainab Saleh about her ethnography Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia. Through life histories and accounts of Iraqi exiles in London, Dr. Saleh...⁠https://www.haverford.edu/users/zsaleh⁠⁠https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/return-ruin⁠ https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/political-undesirablesAbout the Host:Benin Alman is a Masters student in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her thesis explores the collective memory of Iraqi Rafha refugees and how it intersects with power and identity. Her work is informed by postcolonial, migration, and Middle Eastern studies.Podcast Theme Music:Many thanks to Moneka Arabic Jazz and Lulaworld Records for allowing us to use the song Mail Shougle as our podcast theme music. Share your comments:We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at migrantethnographies@gmail.comSpecial thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS:Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast and to Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.
]]>3382false12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ethnography-as-a-clinical-tool-cultural-psychiatry-and-the-asylum-process--75266389Migrant Ethnographies is a new semi-academic podcast featuring qualitative research on migration. Through stories, practices, and grounded theories, Migrant Ethnographies explores the lived realities of migration and the evolving journey of ethnographic research. Each podcast episode is recorded by a Concordia University graduate student who works on a topic related to migration with guidance from Dr. Deniz Duruiz.   Special thanks to the Ethnography Lab and the Milieux Institute at Concordia University for providing access to the recording equipment used in this episode. We’re also grateful to Erik Ziomko, a Montreal-based artist, for our podcast’s theme music, Respect, which is available on SoundCloud. We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠
Host:Nathan Ferguson is a Master’s candidate at Concordia University’s department of Sociology and Anthropology. His thesis research seeks to describe and interpret the role of the body in the field of transcultural psychiatry. He is also a member of the Montreal Waterways Collective, a research group dedicated to exploring the status and meaning of water in urban environments. 
Guests: Grace Davis is a peer support worker, based out of the Jewish General Hospital's Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry. She is associated with the Center-West Island branch of Montreal's integrated healthcare network, where she specializes in direct peer support work with patients, and also serves as a consultant on special projects. Davis has been involved for two years with the Cultural Consultation Service’s interdisciplinary case conferences. In her contributions to these conferences, she helps the consultation team build their understanding of patients’ experiences and predicaments, through a sensitivity to relevant social contexts and structures. As well as her academic and professional knowledge, she also accesses her own lived experience, as a senior citizen who is a visible minority, and an immigrant of several countries who is multilingual and well versed in various cultures. G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and Director of the Cultural Consultation Service. He also directs the Culture and Early Psychosis Program at the Jewish General Hospital. His academic and research interests include the cultural adaptation of services for early psychosis, linguistic barriers in mental health care, and religion and mental health. He is also interested in academic editing and the history of psychiatry, and, in 2023, began as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry.
]]>fee05aa2-a213-4761-9877-44e3a5f26da8Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:12:47 +0000Migrant EthnographiesThis episode of Migrant Ethnographies features a conversation between our host, Nathan Ferguson, and Grace Davis and Eric Jarvis, two members of the Jewish General Hospital’s Cultural Consultation Service (CCS). We speak about a unique form of...Migrant Ethnographies is a new semi-academic podcast featuring qualitative research on migration. Through stories, practices, and grounded theories, Migrant Ethnographies explores the lived realities of migration and the evolving journey of ethnographic research. Each podcast episode is recorded by a Concordia University graduate student who works on a topic related to migration with guidance from Dr. Deniz Duruiz.   Special thanks to the Ethnography Lab and the Milieux Institute at Concordia University for providing access to the recording equipment used in this episode. We’re also grateful to Erik Ziomko, a Montreal-based artist, for our podcast’s theme music, Respect, which is available on SoundCloud. We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠
Host:Nathan Ferguson is a Master’s candidate at Concordia University’s department of Sociology and Anthropology. His thesis research seeks to describe and interpret the role of the body in the field of transcultural psychiatry. He is also a member of the Montreal Waterways Collective, a research group dedicated to exploring the status and meaning of water in urban environments. 
Guests: Grace Davis is a peer support worker, based out of the Jewish General Hospital's Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry. She is associated with the Center-West Island branch of Montreal's integrated healthcare network, where she specializes in direct peer support work with patients, and also serves as a consultant on special projects. Davis has been involved for two years with the Cultural Consultation Service’s interdisciplinary case conferences. In her contributions to these conferences, she helps the consultation team build their understanding of patients’ experiences and predicaments, through a sensitivity to relevant social contexts and structures. As well as her academic and professional knowledge, she also accesses her own lived experience, as a senior citizen who is a visible minority, and an immigrant of several countries who is multilingual and well versed in various cultures. G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and Director of the Cultural Consultation Service. He also directs the Culture and Early Psychosis Program at the Jewish General Hospital. His academic and research interests include the cultural adaptation of services for early psychosis, linguistic barriers in mental health care, and religion and mental health. He is also interested in academic editing and the history of psychiatry, and, in 2023, began as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry.
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About the Guests:
Grace Davis is a peer support worker, based out of the Jewish General Hospital's Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry. She is associated with the Center-West Island branch of Montreal's integrated healthcare network, where she specializes in direct peer support work with patients, and also serves as a consultant on special projects. Davis has been involved for two years with the Cultural Consultation Service’s interdisciplinary case conferences. In her contributions to these conferences, she helps the consultation team build their understanding of patients’ experiences and predicaments, through a sensitivity to relevant social contexts and structures. As well as her academic and professional knowledge, she also accesses her own lived experience, as a senior citizen who is a visible minority, and an immigrant of several countries who is multilingual and well versed in various cultures. G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and Director of the Cultural Consultation Service. He also directs the Culture and Early Psychosis Program at the Jewish General Hospital. His academic and research interests include the cultural adaptation of services for early psychosis, linguistic barriers in mental health care, and religion and mental health. He is also interested in academic editing and the history of psychiatry, and, in 2023, began as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry.

About the Host:
Nathan Ferguson is a Master’s candidate at Concordia University’s department of Sociology and Anthropology. His thesis research seeks to describe and interpret the role of the body in the field of transcultural psychiatry. He is also a member of the Montreal Waterways Collective, a research group dedicated to exploring the status and meaning of water in urban environments. 

Podcast Theme Music:
Many thanks to Erik Ziomko, a Montreal-based artist, for our podcast’s theme music, Respect, which is available here.

Share your comments:
We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠

Special thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS:
Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast and to Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.
]]>fee05aa2-a213-4761-9877-44e3a5f26da8Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:12:47 +0000Migrant EthnographiesThis episode of Migrant Ethnographies features a conversation between our host, Nathan Ferguson, and Grace Davis and Eric Jarvis, two members of the Jewish General Hospital’s Cultural Consultation Service (CCS). We speak about a unique form of...
About the Guests:
Grace Davis is a peer support worker, based out of the Jewish General Hospital's Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry. She is associated with the Center-West Island branch of Montreal's integrated healthcare network, where she specializes in direct peer support work with patients, and also serves as a consultant on special projects. Davis has been involved for two years with the Cultural Consultation Service’s interdisciplinary case conferences. In her contributions to these conferences, she helps the consultation team build their understanding of patients’ experiences and predicaments, through a sensitivity to relevant social contexts and structures. As well as her academic and professional knowledge, she also accesses her own lived experience, as a senior citizen who is a visible minority, and an immigrant of several countries who is multilingual and well versed in various cultures. G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and Director of the Cultural Consultation Service. He also directs the Culture and Early Psychosis Program at the Jewish General Hospital. His academic and research interests include the cultural adaptation of services for early psychosis, linguistic barriers in mental health care, and religion and mental health. He is also interested in academic editing and the history of psychiatry, and, in 2023, began as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry.

About the Host:
Nathan Ferguson is a Master’s candidate at Concordia University’s department of Sociology and Anthropology. His thesis research seeks to describe and interpret the role of the body in the field of transcultural psychiatry. He is also a member of the Montreal Waterways Collective, a research group dedicated to exploring the status and meaning of water in urban environments. 

Podcast Theme Music:
Many thanks to Erik Ziomko, a Montreal-based artist, for our podcast’s theme music, Respect, which is available here.

Share your comments:
We’d love to hear from you! Share your comments, ideas, or proposals at ⁠migrantethnographies@gmail.com⁠

Special thanks to Concordia University and the IRMS:
Special thanks to the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) for hosting the podcast and to Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP) for funding this project.
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