Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB) is a Faculty Research Centre within the Arts, Law and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Bristol. We are an interdisciplinary network of academics and others with diverse interests from Film Studies, Modern Languages and Music, to Politics, Sociology and English!
MMB offers a creative space to develop research on migration in theory, policy and practice. By expanding and challenging understandings of migration and making connections between different types of mobilities, beyond the human and across time, we endeavour to support work that contributes to creating a more just world.
Our work is oriented around two social justice research themes:
- Multiple mobilities explores how mobilities are interconnected, taking human movement as our starting point, but extending to include, for example, environmental and data justice.
- Nation, nationality and nationalism are concepts that both connect ‘race’ and migration and abjure the connections between them. Looking at past, present and futures will enable us to engage deeply with historical and decolonial knowledges and make an important contribution to present debates and creative imaginings of futures.
We promote what we call ‘The Bristol Approach to migration and mobilities’: research that is conceptually driven, critical and creative.
MMB challenges concepts in relation to human and non-human movement such as trade, goods and non-human species:
MMB works with researchers to connect migration with other social justice related issues, especially racism, nations and nationalism:
MMB is radically interdisciplinary and facilitates conversations between diverse perspectives and disciplines:
