The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) supports academic dialogue and real-time action on one of the most urgent global challenges of our time: achieving meaningful, intersectional engagement with vulnerable populations. Bringing together an outstanding team from across the University of St Andrews and beyond, CMR facilitates cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary debate, and knowledge application to promote engagement with minority issues.
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Season 5 / Episode 3
In Episode 3 of Season 5, Luci Portugal Vidal (Mlitt International Security Studies) in speaks with Aleksejs Ivashuk, founder of Apatride Network and a leading advocate on statelessness in Europe, about the realities of life without legal nationality. Moving beyond statelessness as a legal category, the conversation explores how non-recognition shapes access to rights, education, healthcare, work, mobility, identity, and…
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My Life In… Podcast | Episode 4
We are pleased to share the latest episode of My Life In…, the podcast from the Centre for Minorities Research. In this episode, Professor Alice König speaks with Will Dalziel and Dr Patrícia Martuscelli about their professional journeys and experiences working on issues related to conflict, migration, peacebuilding, and youth engagement. The conversation explores career…
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Season 5 / Episode 2
In this episode, Evgeniya Pakhomova, a social anthropologist specialising in Russian antiwar activism, interviews Lana Pylaeva, an indigenous activist from the republic of Komi and director of regional media Komi.Daily. Evgeniya presents the context for the new wave of Indigenous activism that emerged in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, while…
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