Rebordering Britain & Britons after Brexit

Who do we think we are?

From Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Windrush deportation scandal citizenship and the responsibilities of the UK government to the people of Hong Kong, it seems that citizenship and migration in Britain are never far from the headlines. Who do we think we are? explores all of this and more. Join Professor Michaela Benson and her guests as they debunk taken-for-granted understandings of who is a citizen and who is a migrant in Britain today.

Hosted and produced by Michaela Benson.

Cover Art: George Kalivis

Production and post-production: Art of Podcast

All Episodes

S2 E8 Who is a migrant?

BtH1 S8 Beyond the headlines … with İdil Akıncı-Pérez

S2 E7 European Identities from the Aliens Act 1905 to Brexit

BtH1 S7 Beyond the headlines … with Hannah Lewis

Imagining a new Britain, 20 years on

BtH1 E6 Beyond the headlines … with Cecilia Menjívar

S2 E5 What can we learn about what British and EU citizenship from Brexit?

BtH1 S5 Beyond the headlines … with Colin Yeo

What do family migration rules reveal about British citizenship today?

How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship?

Beyond the headlines … with Alison Phipps and Tawona Sithole

*EPISODE SWAP* Surviving Society E147 Aleema Gray: Notes on the Rastafari Movement in Britain

Beyond the Headlines ... with Zrinka Bralo

What does British citizenship have to do with Global Social Inequalities?

Beyond the headlines … with Aaron Winter

What does the Nationality and Borders Act mean for British citizenship?

Beyond the Headlines ... with Dr Yvonne Su

What can we learn about British citizenship from the Chagos Islanders?

What do the children denied the right to nationality through their British parents tell us about citizenship?

What do Clause 9 (Nationality and Borders Bill) and the history of citizenship deprivation in the UK tell us about Britishness today?

What can English-language testing for the purposes of immigration and citizenship tell us about who counts as British today?

What can the Hong Kong BN(O) visa tell us about borders and belonging in Britain today?

What can the UK’s citizenship test tell us about the shape of Britishness today?

How the British Nationality Act 1981 laid the foundations for a stateless population within Britain's borders

How the Commonwealth Immigration Acts laid the foundations for the Windrush Deportation Scandal

BONUS: Talking about citizenship in ‘Global Britain’

What can the development of immigration legislation tell us about citizenship in Britain?

Why we need to look at history to understand British citizenship today?

TRAILER: Who do we think we are?