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After yet another spell of the British press and politicians using very dehumanising and derogatory rhetoric about migrants, I felt it necessary to go back to the Away Team episode of the Allusionist, about the language of migration, with lecturer and researcher Emma Briant and author and editor Nikesh Shukla. This episode originally went out in early 2017, but it is never not relevant.
And there’s a chunk of new material in the Minillusionist, so stick around right till the end to hear that.
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CREDITS:
Nikesh Shukla is the editor of the excellent Good Immigrant essay collections, and the author of books including The Boxer, The One Who Wrote Destiny, and What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions. His memoir Brown Baby will be published in 2021. Find him at nikesh-shukla.com and on Twitter @nikeshshukla.
Emma Briant is a lecturer and researcher. Her book Bad News For Refugees is a years-long study of the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration, and how migration has been treated in the media and in politics. She has also been working on mapping the influence of Cambridge Analytica on political campaigns - propagandamachine.tech. Find her work at emma-briant.co.uk and follow her on Twitter @emmalbriant.
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and hear more of his composition on the new science podcast for kids Maddie’s Sound Explorers.
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