In this episode of Free Thinking, Michaela Benson joins Laurence Scott to discuss emigration stories. The episode also features Eliza Showell’s great niece Black Country poet Liz Berry, Leanne McCormick and Elaine Farrell presenters of the Bad Bridget podcast which tells the stories of crime poverty and survival experienced by the thousands of 19th-century Irish …
Home means something to everyone. More than just bricks and mortar, it’s about security and belonging, citizenship and exclusion. Michaela Benson has researched it all: from the UK’s self-build communities, to people seeking a new lifestyle abroad. She tells Alexis and Rosie about this and her own experience of home, including her mother’s relationship to her …
Who Do We Think We Are? Presenter, Michaela Benson joins the Surviving Society podcast to discuss the UK in the context of ‘Global Britain’, post-Brexit and what this means for nations like Hong Kong.
Britain continues to be a major source of emigrants in the 21st century – not something we often hear about. So why do people leave the UK now and which countries do they choose to settle in? And how is emigration today affected by Britain’s colonial past? Mukti Jain Campion talks to sociologist Professor Michaela Benson of Lancaster …
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In this edition of Street Signs podcast Les Back meets Michaela Benson and talks about her work on Brexit and the experience of UK citizens living in the EU. This offers a very different perspective on the current debate the UK’s decision to leave the EU. We see Brexit from the point of view of …
Michaela Benson joins the Surviving Society podcast to talk about her Discover Society article about who is considered ‘the good citizen’ in pandemic times. Together, we repeat how important it is to be clear on how unevenly felt and experienced both the lockdown and Covid-19 is.
Michaela Benson joins the Surviving Society podcast to talk about the durability of (mis)recognitions of British emigration histories, the Brexit Brits Abroad Project and the missed opportunity for migrant solidarities following the EU referendum.
