The City Politics Podcast Episode 9 - The Politics of Migration

On September 2nd, 2015 Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old boy fleeing the carnage of the Syrian Civil War, drowned while making the crossing between Bodrum in Western Turkey and the Greek Island of Kos. Images of the body have come to symbolise everything people are willing to risk for a better life in the face of the strict policing of borders. Although Europe’s migrant crisis has abated, the politics and ethics of human migration remain one of the most contested issues today. Today we will give you the City View on the politics of migration. Our guests are Sara Silvestri, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, and Andri Innes, Lecturer in International Politics and a member of the Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London.

On September 2nd, 2015 Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old boy fleeing the carnage of the Syrian Civil War, drowned while making the crossing between Bodrum in Western Turkey and the Greek Island of Kos. Images of the body have come to symbolise everything people are willing to risk for a better life in the face of the strict policing of borders.

Although Europe’s migrant crisis has abated, the politics and ethics of human migration remain one of the most contested issues today.

Today we will give you the City View on the politics of migration.

Our guests are Sara Silvestri, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, and Andri Innes, Lecturer in International Politics and a member of the Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London.