How to become an explorer, with Reza Pakravan

The plight of stranded Australians: Australians abroad are stranded: 23,000 have registered their desire to come home urgently, but they can't. Ostensibly to reduce the spread of covid-19 and the burden on the country's quarantine system, the federal government has instituted flight caps th by Borderline

40 min listen

"Living here is a decision other people made for me" with Janet Matta: Welcome to a new series of intimate conversations with global citizens, who talk about their identity, their choices and what home even means. This week, Janet Matta, an American working mom from Seattle, talks about leaving the United States and continui by Borderline

35 min listen

The Trump administration sends foreign students home, with Jamie Kanki: The Trump administration has reinstated the rule that forbids international students from staying in the US if they are taking online classes only. The rule had been relaxed in the spring because of the covid-19 pandemic. Now despite institutions such as by Borderline

14 min listen

The big wooing of international students, with Jamie Kanki: Universities have been battling it out to woo international students. Can they survive without them? Schools in the US and UK, but also now China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea... have been racing to attract international students from Asia, Eastern Euro by Borderline

30 min listen

Trailer: A podcast for those whose lives straddle borders, with host Isabelle Roughol. Coming soon on all your favorite podcasting apps. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/borderlinepod/message by Borderline

3 min listen

The super weird new way to travel, with Zach Honig: Zach Honig, editor at large at The Points Guy and ultimate frequent flyer, shares how he plans to stay safe on planes, how airlines have abused customers during the pandemic and why you might want to stay local. "Those of us who are used to enjoying the j by Borderline

33 min listen

How to take your job on the road, with Mandy Fransz: If we can work from home now, why not work from the road? A laptop and decent wifi is all many of us need. "To be able to work and live wherever you feel happiest and most productive," that's the digital nomad lifestyle as explained to me by Mandy Fransz. by Borderline

27 min listen

"Shame stops you from trying" with Marcela Kunova: "The hostility that you feel, one of the purposes is to make you feel ashamed and to hinder you, to make sure you don't act, or you don't aspire, or you don't fight back." by Borderline

38 min listen

The end of the American century, with Wade Davis: What comes next if America is no longer a superpower? by Borderline

33 min listen

What globalists should learn from nationalists, with Hassan Damluji: The great divide between nationalists and globalists is the political story of our times. But are they that far apart? "What would a united world look like other than people feeling, on a global level, something like what they do about their countrymen?" by Borderline

34 min listen

Why Lebanon is fed up with bearing up, with Lynn Chouman: Lebanese journalist and expat Lynn Chouman on why resilience is a double-edged sword, and how one relates to a country that keeps pushing you away, yet calling you home. by Borderline

35 min listen

"I don't know what you are," with Ferdous al-Faruque: Why do we feel the need to put people into boxes, to assign categories in order to decipher them? And what happens to those who fit in many... and none at all? by Borderline

29 min listen

How being hostile to immigrants became UK law, with Colin Yeo: How did a concept meant for counterterrorism become an immigration policy? Over the last decade, the UK set out to build a hostile environment that makes daily life a battle for many migrants and pushes even lawful ones into illegality. Colin Yeo lifts t by Borderline

40 min listen

Iran: When your passport locks you in, with Selda Shamloo: Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport. by Borderline

39 min listen

One family’s 30-year quest for home, with Ty McCormick: Asad Husein went from a Kenyan refugee camp to Princeton University. His story is a miracle of grit and luck. It didn’t have to be that hard. by Borderline

41 min listen

Are travel restrictions effective against Covid-19?: If we all can't travel or see loved ones across borders, please tell me at least it’s working. by Borderline

25 min listen

Reasons to hope (a 2020 review): Because if there's ever a moment for an absolutely not rational belief that things might be okay, it's surely the new year. by Borderline

9 min listen

Should we abolish borders? with Leah Cowan: Borders are an extension of the colonial project and enforced to keep the people who have built rich countries’ wealth from accessing it, argues author and activist Leah Cowan. by Borderline

37 min listen

The world in 2021, with Ian Bremmer: A continued pandemic and fresh vaccines, a new US president with old problems, China triumphant and mistrusted, Brexit done at last, and global institutions on the fritz. Anything else? by Borderline

36 min listen

Will Brexit ever end? with Luke McGee by Borderline

27 min listen

?? An election night invitation ? (This is not an episode): Join me on November 3rd (and 4th) to watch US election results come in together. Or not come in. Bring your own pizza. Sign up here to receive the call link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-borderline-election-night-tickets-127128864857 by Borderline

3 min listen

"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system," with Zoe Gardner: Migrant women are at a higher risk of violence and abuse, often because of the State itself. by Borderline

39 min listen

The Year 1000: When globalisation began, with Dr Valerie Hansen: A millenium ago, the Vikings landed in Canada, Islam spread in China and Southeast Asia was already the world’s factory. Welcome to the first globalization. by Borderline

37 min listen

For transnational families, lockdown has no end: International travel restrictions stop a lot more than holidays. Millions have been separated from loved ones abroad for a year or more. by Borderline

22 min listen

The psychology of borderless thinking, with Steve Taylor: Nationalist or globalist? It may come down to psychological health. by Borderline

32 min listen

Being British and European after Brexit, with Peter Gumbel: Two generations ago, his family fled Germany and became model Britons. Now, orphaned by Brexit, Peter Gumbel reaches back to Europe in search of a new passport – and a reckoning with history. by Borderline

34 min listen

How China built the perfect police state, with Geoffrey Cain: The Uyghurs’ real-life dystopia in Xinjiang offers a glimpse of a political and technological future George Orwell could only imagine. by Borderline

40 min listen

How to become an explorer, with Reza Pakravan: Reza Pakravan has everyone's dream job title – explorer. He just released on Amazon Prime his latest travel series "The World's Most Dangerous Borders." How did he do it? by Borderline

30 min listen

Liberalism is in a fight for its life, with Ian Dunt: Liberalism – a belief in the primacy of individual liberty – has built modern democracies. Now it’s in an existential crisis, caught between rising authoritarianism and identity politics. I look back and ahead for liberals with British political journalis by Borderline

38 min listen

Americans abroad after Trump, with Sarah Browne, Geoffrey Cain & Lauren Tormey: Three expats reflect on politics, home, what was broken and what remains. by Borderline

45 min listen

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