The Role of Housing in the Integration and Resettlement of Refugees and Migrants in the UK
WebinarThe ACH/MMB webinar series continues with a focus on the role of housing in integration and resettlement for refugee and migrant communities in the UK. The event aims to bridge the gap between housing research, policy development and delivery around migration issues, bringing together a wide range of stakeholders from the housing sector and beyond. […]
MMB Reading Group: ‘Justice, Migration, and Mercy’ by Michael Blake
In April we will meet to discuss Justice, Migration, and Mercy by Michael Blake (Oxford University Press, 2020). Justice, Migration, and Mercy provides a vision of how we can understand the political morality of migration. It offers a novel, and plausible, account of the right to exclude on which that right is grounded on a […]
MMB/BPI Funding Workshop: Applying to Research Councils – Top Tips and Your Questions Answered!
Online meetingA recording of this workshop can be viewed here. Join us for an informative, trouble-shooting session to help you improve your UKRI applications! This session is open to University of […]
Divisive Solidarities: An MMB Workshop
University of Bristol Micro-campus Wellspring Settlement, 43 Ducie Road, Barton Hill, Bristol, United KingdomHow do we respond to government policy and media coverage that presents some people's lives as more important than others? All those fleeing violence should be granted safe passage and […]
‘Dear Home Office’: short film + Q&A
Watershed Cinema 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomDear Home Office is a short film produced as part of Subject to Scrutiny, a collaborative project between Migration Mobilities Bristol, University of Bristol and Bristol Refugee Rights. Structured in the form […]
Are Immigration Controls Racist? Lessons from History
G.09 Lecture Theatre, Fry Building, Woodland Road, BristolA public lecture by Professor Nandita Sharma on racism, nationalist ideologies and the creation of controls over cross-border movement. Following the Second World War imperial states were largely replaced by nation […]
Working Up a Large Grant Idea: An MMB Workshop
Ground Floor Meeting Room, 1 Priory Road 1 Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomThis workshop will be a face-to-face session for UoB staff interested in discussing migration and mobilities bid ideas (at any stage). Refreshments and lunch will be provided. If you are interested […]
‘Decolonising and Mobility’: A Seminar with Nandita Sharma
Professor Nandita Sharma gives a SPAIS departmental seminar about decentring the 'foreign' and liberating movement. This seminar for UoB staff and students will explore how class relations are sidelined when […]
‘How not to think like a state: non-exclusion as the basis of political community’ – An MMB PGR workshop with Nandita Sharma
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, Bristol, United KingdomTen places are available for this exclusive workshop with activist scholar Professor Nandita Sharma, hosted by MMB during her Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Postgraduates at all stages of […]
‘African Apocalypse’ (2020) – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, United KingdomA film by Rob Lemkin, featuring Femi Nylander. Music by Tunde Jegede and Sunara Begum. UK Premiere of the Hausa dub (with English subtitles). ‘A people’s history of colonialism […]