From ‘low-skilled’ migrants to ‘key workers’: Rethinking migrants’ skills and labour immigration policies Abstract A key question in labour immigration policy is how to select migrant workers for admission. Most high-income countries distinguish between low – and higher-skilled migrants: high-skilled migrants typically face fewer admission requirements and are given greater rights in the labour market […]

COVID-19 and Queer Asylum is a virtual symposium featuring NGO representatives and lawyers working on queer asylum, LGBTQI+ activists and LGBTQI+ persons seeking asylum/refugees from Germany. The Symposium consists of three panels followed by a counseling forum lead by lawyers and LGBTQI+ asylum practitioners that allows for a Q&A around COVID-19 and LGBTQI+ asylum. This […]

Filmed entirely on his smartphone, 'Midnight Traveller' (2019) documents Hassan Fazili's flight from Afghanistan with his wife and daughters after the Taliban put a price on his head. This highly personal account follows the family's brutal, three-year overland trek to Europe, showing first-hand the dangers refugees face on their gruelling journeys to find asylum. Hassan […]

Both structural and demographic characteristics can influence the exploitation of workers. Gender is one such characteristic. In this virtual workshop, Anna Boucher will present a paper analysing the role of […]

Recordings of the performance, discussions and final debate along with links to the intervention papers and collaborative poem can all be seen here.   The Migrant Dramaturgies Network is bringing together first-generation migrant […]

MMB and PARC (Perivoli Africa Research Centre) are holding an online meeting to start mapping out existing research at UoB relating to migration issues from, to and within Africa. We […]

Join the Brigstow Institute for a work-in-progress conversation with two of its current co-produced projects, led by MMB members: 'Kept apart: making prose-poetry with people separated from families by the […]

A recording of this event is now available to view here.   COVID-19 has highlighted the worst of the UK immigration system. MMB invites four experts to reenvision a better, […]

COVID-19 has laid bare many of the problems with the global food system. Even in ordinary times, migrant farmworkers live and work in overcrowded and dangerous conditions. COVID-19 has ravaged […]

What are the challenges facing LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK? Join us for a virtual reading of their first-hand accounts. 'They separated us. We tried to say no, […]