Podcast

Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas - Audio

Prof. Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College, US) Departmen, UCL Global Migration Symposium Series/UCL Geography

This second event in the UCL Global Migration Symposium Series addressed contemporary forms of cosmopolitanism in the context of global migration. Cosmopolitanism today is no longer the exclusive province of elites. Labour migrants, sojourners, religious believers, and refugees are also open to the world, although they interact with it differently than their professional counterparts. In fact, in today’s world, cosmopolitanism is a necessity not a choice. What are the rights …