Where to begin... Maybe, why we believed to look at the Population Exchange that took place between Turkey and Greece almost 100 years ago is still meaningful to understand migration today.Migrants are becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. In the rush of our urban lives, the presence of the migrants as “the other” is becoming more present yet invisible at the same time. In Izmir, once the flourishing Greek neighborhood of Basmane which witnessed massive depopulation between ‘22 and ‘23, today hosts thousands of migrants from all over the world. In Athens, housing projects such as Prosfigika, which was designed to host the exchanged Greeks of Asia Minor a hundred years ago, are hosting migrants today yet again. It is very evident that these are not mere coincidences, however, one begs the question: What relationship do they possess with each other? What can we learn from the memory of the Population Exchange and project that experience to work on a better future today? Through which practices do migrants reproduce the cities that we live in today and how did they do it in the past? Can life itself become a form of resistance through cultural reproduction tools for migrants such as music, food, and coexistence, wherein their name almost became synonymous with hatred and exclusion today? “Skala / İskele: A Transnational Podcast Project” aims to pursue these questions by following the trail of diversity and richness of migration 100 years ago and today.With more than 60 guests from 6 different cities, we took a journey, believing that "Fighting for a better past means fighting for a better future". And this is the begining of our story.Follow and contact us!Instagram: @collectiveskalaiskeleInfo: [email protected]

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