The 1990s Refugees and Immigration

Arber Qerka-Gashi explores 'Balkanism' and how diaspora communities engage with cultural objects in digital spaces — and what these digital geographies reveal about memory and belonging.

What happens to language when you cross a border? Jonë Zhitia reflects on growing up between languages, the politics of linguistic belonging, and searching for a mother tongue that no longer feels entirely your own.

Dafina Paca unpacks the hierarchies, stereotypes, and genuine differences between Kosovar communities in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and beyond — and what these distinctions reveal about diaspora identity.

Before streaming, before downloads, there were cassettes. This episode traces the cultural history of New Year's Eve cassettes and what they reveal about how diaspora communities maintained connection to home through popular culture.

Food is one of the most intimate archives of diaspora life. Irina Janakievska explores how Balkan culinary traditions have been preserved, adapted, and reimagined in diaspora — and what the kitchen reveals about identity and belonging.

H.E. Dr. Nita Luci reflects on her journey from academic to diplomat, on the relationship between the diaspora and the Kosovar state, and on what it means to live the political in a country still defining itself.

Selma Jahić, who survived the Srebrenica genocide with her brother and mother, shares her family's story of survival, loss, and the ongoing fight for justice and remembrance thirty years on.

Host Rina Limoni is interviewed by Arbër Qerka-Gashi. Using songs as prompts, the conversation traces a life lived across borders through the music that marked each chapter — displacement, migration, identity, code-switching.