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Listen to this podcast from the 25 January seminar

© Oliver Bakewell
Art installation commemorating the transportation of slaves from Benin, Ouidah, June 2015

This seminar Between knowledge and power: Understanding how international organisations see migration was presented by Olivette Otele (Bath Spa University) and explores how histories of transatlantic slavery impact on contemporary questions of migration.

Duration: 31:43

Read Dr Otele's accompanying blog piece

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