Migrants - Refugees
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Migrants and refugees: Laurie Taylor explores the historical and contemporary realities of the marooned, unhomed and displaced peoples of the world. Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, charts the changing meaning of exile. Also, how do the lives of migrants in London illuminate our complex, urban multiculture? Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Shamser Sinha, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Youth Studies at the University of Suffolk, talk about a unique, collaborative study which involved 30 young migrants.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
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| 0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
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| 0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
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| 0:36.6 | I'm Laurie Taylor and this is the Radio 4 podcast for Thinking Aloud. Is your passport in a safe place? Are you sure? I mean just imagine living life without it. |
| 0:44.0 | B.C Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello. |
| 1:10.0 | A few Clow Hello, few classical composers have been such fervent collectors of indigenous culture as the Hungarian Bella Bartock, who spent years of his early life exploring the remote regions of Romania, Hungary and Slovakia in search of original uncorrupted folk music. But although such devotion to indigenous art might suggest that Bartock would be an advocate of national purity, |
| 1:20.0 | when the Hungarian regime in the 1940s began to display just such tendencies, he wrote an |
| 1:26.6 | essay in praise of the manner of which racial impurity produced a healthier and more vibrant |
| 1:32.2 | folk culture. By that time though Bartock had left behind |
| 1:35.8 | the worsening European situation and settled in New York. He had become a refugee. |
| 1:42.1 | Now when that word refugee appears in that sort of historical |
| 1:45.7 | context it readily arouses understanding and compassion poor brave |
| 1:50.4 | Bartock forced to leave his beloved home country because of the prospect of |
| 1:54.2 | Nazi persecution. But we now hardly need to read a daily newspaper or dip into a |
| 1:59.2 | current affairs program in order to realize that the word refugee currently provokes not so much |
| 2:05.7 | sympathy as fear and suspicion and perhaps nobody has so sensitively |
| 2:10.3 | chronicled the complex cultural political and moral reasons for this shifting |
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