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A collection of thoughts, stories, quotes, and basic life experience designed to help us take the time each day to displace a little of the baggage in our lives with something better.

Walker Reed needs all the help he can get from Greek and Norse gods—as well as his goofy assistants, Virgil, Rimi, and Cagna—as he strives to perfect every technical detail of Symphony. He pains over each landmass, the system that governs this new world, and the civilizations that will soon span the breadth of the planet and determine the livelihoods of its creatures. As his world evolves and begins to take shape, Walker must come to terms with his new role as a god and what it means to truly guide Symphony's first people.

We live in an ever-increasingly mobile world. Wilfrid Laurier University’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) supports scholarship and research on international migration and mobility at global, national, regional and local scales. The Centre provides platforms for rich debate, research, policy analysis and community engagement. And now, the IMRC takes on a new digital platform through its exciting and informative podcast. Join Director Alison Mountz and Associate Director Kim Rygiel as they talk to authors, activists, scholars, creatives and a host of other people engaging ...

The Sawyer Seminar Series, hosted by Boston University's Center on Forced Displacement, is designed as a comparison between US and EU policies to acknowledge both the exceptional character of the US and EU’s influence and the similarities in their border externalization regimes. By engaging ethics, history, and culture, alongside international relations, technology studies, and public health, we hope that our Seminar will suggest a better path forward. This Sawyer Seminar Series is made possible with funding support from the Mellon Foundation.

As forced displacement numbers continue to rise worldwide, new minds are needed to enter the solution sphere. Join us monthly for conversations about the complexities of forced displacement with researchers, practitioners and artists from across the globe. This podcast is produced by Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement. For more information about research and events, check out our website: https://www.bu.edu/cfd/

Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the future, he has failed to keep his promise. Wassim is on the streets, seeking shelter from both the city and the civil war storming his country. Meanwhile Hussam, now on the other side of the world, remains haunted by his own ghosts, doing his utmost to drown them out with every vice imaginable.

The much anticipated sophomore novel from the bestselling author of Caucasia and the forthcoming Colored Television A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of...

The leading podcast on asylum, migration and displacement. Asylum Speakers will take you on a journey across the world, without you having to go anywhere. We're here to amplify voices, educate, inspire and debunk some of the common myths and misconceptions around migration today. Join us as we transcend borders, nationalities, religions and languages to hear from the people with which we share this world. Celebrating our differences and recognising what unites us. Listen out for yourself in the words of each guest because at the end of the day we're all human, and always able to find common ...