025 | Valerie Hansen | The year 1000, when globalization began
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A millenium ago, the Vikings landed in Canada, Islam spread in China and Southeast Asia was already the world’s factory. Welcome to the first globalization. Globalization isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonization and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie
Forget Columbus. Globalization began a lot sooner than you think
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Vikings, Mayas and the ancient Chinese were already bringing the world closer together in the year 1000. Episode 25 with Dr Valerie Hansen.
024 | Zoe Gardner | When immigrants are women
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"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system," says immigration activist Zoe Gardner
"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system"
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Migrant women are at a higher risk of violence and abuse, often because of the State itself, explains immigration activist Zoe Gardner.
023 | Selda Shamloo | When your passport locks you in
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Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport. For many of us, our passport is a symbol of our wanderlust, a badge of our freedom. It’
This is life on an ostracised passport
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Iran: When your passport locks you in, with Selda Shamloo (episode 23)