Migration has become a key issue in electoral campaigns all across Europe. The 2024 elections to the European Parliament will be no exception to this. By framing migration as a key threat to our security, far-right parties seek to gain more seats in the European Parliament. In this podcast, we will put the European election in perspective. We will discuss more generally about how migration narratives play out in Brussels. What kind of migration narratives are dominant in the EU? And how do they actually influence EU policymaking processes?

These are some of the questions that are tackled in this third programme of the BRIDGES Podcast Series, which counts on the participation of expert Florian Trauner, co-director of the VUB’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM-VUB) and BRIDGES researcher, and Omar Ba, community organiser, activist and politician, and former candidate in the elections to the European Parliament in 2019. The two of them bring their expertise and insights to this podcast conducted by Gaia Romero, researcher at BIRMM-VUB.

The podcast is also available at the BRIDGES Youtube channel, Spotify and RSS.