Migration and Belonging: A Facing History and Ourselves Podcast

In this Facing History and Ourselves podcast, we explore how migration is changing the way individuals, groups, and nations consider what it means to belong. 

As part of the 2008 Facing History and Ourselves/Harvard Law School conference titled Hope, Critique, and Possibility: Universal Rights in Societies of Difference, we interviewed three scholars who spoke on the theme of “Educating in Diverse Societies":

• Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, NYU anthropologist and author of several studies about the integration of immigrants.
• Professor John Bowen, author of “Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves”.
• Sir Keith Ajegbo, Former Head Teacher of Deptford Green School, Home Office Advisor in the United Kingdom.

Click on the audio controls at the bottom of this page to hear the 5-minute podcast.

Related Facing History and Ourselves Resources

• Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World
• Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain
• What Do We Do with a Difference? France and the Debate over Headscarves in Schools

This podcast was produced and narrated by Adam Strom. Audio editing by Mark Chapin. Theme and background music by John Englander.