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In July 2022 the news broke that Sir Mo Farah, fou

In July 2022 the news broke that Sir Mo Farah, four times Olympian for Team GB, had been trafficked to the UK as a child. The headlines enhanced public understandings of trafficking. They brought into the frame the children forced into domestic servitude and the circumstances which mean that their situations may not come to light. Hosts Ala Sirriyeh and Michaela Benson are joined by Dr Hannah Lewis, University of Sheffield to discuss what trafficking is and its relationship to modern slavery and forced labour; public responses to victims of trafficking; and how the Hostile Environment further limits the possibilities of exiting the relationships of exploitation at the heart of trafficking.

In this episode we cover …
1          Human Trafficking
2          Sir Mo Farah
3          Forced Labour and Domestic Servitude

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CAPTIONS If you’re a person who’s a migrant a

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If you’re a person who’s a migrant and you have experienced some sort of form of abuse, it’s almost impossible for you to get any form of support without the person who’s offering that support being required to report you to the Home Office. So the notion that a child would be able to go on to go into school to become an exceptional athletes make an application for citizenship is obviously quite unusual and actually probably wouldn’t happen today.

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That was Dr Hannah Lewis (University of Sheffield) reflecting on the Mo Farah revelation and how the Hostile Environment means that exiting conditions of trafficking and modern slavery would be even more challenging today than it was for him.

Listen to Beyond the Headlines … with Hannah Lewis to hear more

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We were thrilled to be joined by journalist, broad

We were thrilled to be joined by journalist, broadcaster and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the latest episode of @abtcitizenship - here she is explaining why she felt that in the early 2000s time was ripe to put forward a new imagining of Britain that put paid to the white imaginaries that preceded it and embraced the multiculturalism of the British public.

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In the early 2000s, with the beginning of the New

In the early 2000s, with the beginning of the New Labour government, journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown asked this question, calling for a radical reimagining of who was considered as British and outlining her hopes for a new Britain. In this special episode, she joins Michaela Benson in conversation to consider why 20 years later we’re still asking the same question. She draws out the differences between now and then; shifts within the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present-day; what this means for questions of race, migration and belonging; New Labour, migration and the Iraq War; Meghan Markle; and the challenges ahead for keeping hope alive.

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CAPTIONS: So I thought if Labour is going to do an

CAPTIONS: So I thought if Labour is going to do anything meaningful, it needs to be addressing who we are and who we can be and who we want to be. And use its period in power, not to social engineer, but to tell a proper history, for example, to educate our children differently, maybe to get sections of the media to reflect the country we are, not the country they wish we were.

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So excited to announce the launch of this episode of Who do we think we are? We’re joined by journalist, broadcaster and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, in conversation with @profmbenson about her 2002 book which shares the name of the podcast. Here she is talking about her hopes then for what the new Labour administration might mean for questions of race and belonging, and her calls for a reimagined Britain.

We talk why this question had such urgency in the political context of then and now.

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What if your temporary right to live somewhere end

What if your temporary right to live somewhere ended up lasting a lifetime? This is the reality for many of those living in the US with temporary protection status (TPS). Imagine what it must be like having to reapply for your status time and again with no route to permanent residence. What does this do to your abilities to plan for the future, to live and work?

We explore all of this and more in Beyond the Headlines … with Cecilia Menjívar

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We love this quotation from our latest episode of

We love this quotation from our latest episode of Beyond the Headlines. It’s a call to action by Cecilia Menjívar for sociologists to consider legal status within intersectional understandings of inequalities. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

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Take a listen to the latest episode of Beyond the

Take a listen to the latest episode of Beyond the Headlines, where @profmbenson and @alasirriyeh were joined by Professor Cecilia Menjívar to talk about the infrastructures of immigration enforcement and control in the US and the continuities between the Trump and Biden administrations, and how these shape the lives of Central Americans living in the US.

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For many people, migration is about escaping perse

For many people, migration is about escaping persecution and state violence. But in the context increasingly criminalisation of migration, state violence may characterise the lives of immigrants. In this episode of Beyond the Headlines, @alasirriyeh and @profmbenson are joined by Professor Cecilia Menjívar @ucla to discuss her work with Central American migrants in the US. She highlights how those taking part in her empirical research revealed to her the ways in which the infrastructures of immigration enforcement and control in the US shaped their lives and the parallels they draw in state violence before and after migration. And she stresses the urgent need to consider legal status as an axis of social inequality in contemporary society.

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CAPTIONS That brought to me the parallels between

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That brought to me the parallels between life under state terror in Central America, and life under legal terror brought about by immigration enforcement in the United States.

That was Professor Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology @ucla talking how Central American migrants to the US revealed to her the ways in which the infrastructures of immigration enforcement and control in the US shaped their lives and the parallels they drew in state violence before and after migration.

You can hear more as we go Beyond the Headlines of changes to immigration control under the Biden administration in Episode 6.

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That British citizens in the UK and abroad lost th

That British citizens in the UK and abroad lost their rights as EU citizens is a lesser known story of Brexit. But it is one that our host @profmbenson has spent the last five years looking into for her research. You can find out a little bit more in our episode with @nandosigona on what we can learn about British and EU citizenship from Brexit.

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From the 2016 Brexit Referendum onwards there was

From the 2016 Brexit Referendum onwards there was a sense that something unprecedented had happened. Maybe on a political level this is true. Although we should remember that other countries left the European Community in the past. For example in 1976, Algeria was excluded from the European Community; it had been a member even once the country won its independence from France in 1962.

However, when we look at the UK’s history of migration and citizenship the shift in status of EU citizens in the UK might have precedents that all too often got overlooked in the public and political discourse around citizens’ rights.

And this is what our guest @nandosigona refers to in this quotation from our episode, where he highlights that we’ve been here before. The British state has priors in this area. As we have shown time and again on Who do we think we are? It is very adept at rewriting who counts as a citizen and who counts as a migrant.

To find out more take a listen to our episode What can we learn about British and EU citizenship from Brexit?

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