Dr. Muller works at intersection of three interdisciplinary fields: borders & borderlands studies, critical security studies, and surveillance studies. I grapple with the intersection of borders, borderlands, security, identity and postcolonial studies, sovereign power and exceptionalism, as well as topics concerning biometric technology, surveillance, AI, the politics of risk, migration & mobility, and broader themes and literatures in international political sociology.

On this episode, PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Dr. Sean Sithole, who is an academic researcher and research fellow. His recent research work includes being a Balsillie Scholar with the Technology Governance Initiative at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) in Canada, focusing on the fusion of financial technology (fintech), digital remittances and financial inclusion.

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On this episode, PhD candidate Ana Visan talks to Petra Molnar about her book, The Walls Have Eyes, and about implications of using technologies along border zones. Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Faculty Associate (and former Fellow) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Dr. Alison Mountz talks to Dr. Sharry Aiken and Dr. Stephanie Silverman about immigration detention in the context of their project, De-Carceral Futures, which aimed to create a broader public conversation about immigration detention and its consequences.

Alison Mountz and Laura Bisaillon speak about the experience of being an immigrant and about what that means in today's world. They also talk about what it means to be a reluctant activist and what to do when starting in activism. 

Alison Mountz interviews Naomi Paik, who is an associate professor of Criminology, Law, & Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. They discuss Naomi's book, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, and what it means today to be an activist and an academic.

On this episode, Alison Mountz interviews Nandita Sharma, professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, about her recent book, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. They talk about how to overcome the labels of "migrant" and "native" and to build a  decolonized commons.  

On this second episode, Alison Mountz, Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration, chats with Maurice Stierl, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield, about his book, Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe, and his work with the NGO Alarm Phone.