In this episode, Kate and Sabrina sit down with editors Muhammad Zaman, Carrie Preston, and Marina Lažetić to discuss their newest volume, Mexico-US, Serbia-EU: Border Lives and Works. They reflect on the interdisciplinary exploration of how migrants, artists, activists, and researchers navigate, reshape, and define life in global borderlands. Could these parallel challenges possess parallel solutions?

Join Kate and Sabrina as they step in the studio for the first time with Dorsa Ghazanfari, a CFD Undergraduate Fellow. Dorsa opens up about her mom’s experience as Baháʼí Post-Iranian Revolution and how it led to an unsuccessful border crossing, which impacts their thought processes today. They dive into state-based religious oppression, finding a welcoming religious community, and channeling generational trauma into motivation.

This episode contains mention of gun violence. Please keep this in mind when deciding if and how you’ll listen.

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In this episode, Shandra sits down with Marina Lazetic, Director of Programs at CFD, and Alexandra 'Xan' Weber, Chief Advancement Officer and Senior Vice President of the International Institute of New England. They discuss the timely importance of academic and practitioner collaborations in the field of forced displacement, highlighting new initiatives and research both organizations are undertaking together.

For more information on research and CFD events, check out our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/ ⁠⁠⁠

The newest edition of the Critical Forced Displacement Magazine can be found here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.criticalforceddisplacement.com/