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The figure of the migrant: Conversation with Nandita Sharma - Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement

Nando Sigona speaks to Nandita Sharma, professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Nandita's work examines the historical and political production of migration, borders, and national belonging, with a particular focus on how distinctions between “natives” and “migrants” are created and sustained. In her work, she challenges the “figure of the migrant” as a taken-for-granted category and invites us to rethink how we understand migration governance and the politics of belonging today.This episode, filmed by Sam Liebmann, was recorded at the British Academy-sponsored workshop "Writing for Change: Slavery, Violence and Exploitation" in Praia do Forte, Bahia, Brazil on 16 April 2026.Additional readings/viewings: Natives with Nandita Sharma, Uncommon Sense, S1 E9 (2022): https://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/uncommon-sense/natives-with-nandita-sharma/Palestine, Nationalism, and the Statehood Illusion with Nandita Sharma, Dilemma Podcast (with Jay Shapiro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skwRJ1Ghykk

The figure of the migrant: Conversation with Nandita Sharma 15:47
Unwelcome to Denmark: Asylum on Probation with Michelle Pace 26:14
Exploitable by design: migrant workers in the UK immigration system (S5E2) 36:10
Migrant labour rights within/between UK, East and Southeast Asia – with Mariko Hayashi (S5 E1) 31:09
Connected people: migration, social difference and colonial legacies – with Angelo Martins Junior (S4 E3) 35:56

Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement

The figure of the migrant: Conversation with Nandita Sharma
Unwelcome to Denmark: Asylum on Probation with Michelle Pace
Exploitable by design: migrant workers in the UK immigration system (S5E2)
Migrant labour rights within/between UK, East and Southeast Asia – with Mariko Hayashi (S5 E1)
Connected people: migration, social difference and colonial legacies – with Angelo Martins Junior (S4 E3)
Temporalities of forced immobility – with Inka Stock (S4 E2)
Encountering Migration: Worlds Within and Worlds Without – with Michael Jackson (S4 E1)
Collaborating with research assistants in Afghanistan – with Meena Sadr & Hannah Pool (S3 E5)
Queer resistance and solidarity in wartime Ukraine – with Zhenya Tramvay Yevhen Trachuk (S3 E4)
Brexit and the practice of citizenship – with Djordje Sredanovic (S3 E3)

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The figure of the migrant: Conversation with Nandita Sharma - Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement

Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement