This month the MMB Reading Group are meeting to discuss Rosi Braidotti’s work on the nomadic subject, Braidotti, R., 2014. Writing as a nomadic subject. Comparative Critical Studies, 11(2-3), pp.163-18 and Braidotti, R., 2013. Metamorphoses: Towards a materialist theory of becoming. John Wiley & Sons. The discussion will be led by Tom Allport, Honorary Senior […]

A multi-disciplinary seminar with Professor Victoria Hattam exploring politics, migration, mobility, visual culture, design and materiality.   Drawing on photographic and historical research, Victoria Hattam considers links between the US war in Vietnam and construction of a border wall in the United States. Portable helicopter landing mats used in Vietnam were sent back to the […]

An interactive workshop with Victoria Hattam and Bridget Anderson examining the origins and politics of policy silos and how to think beyond them.   For some time now, scholars have examined the formation of policy silos across a number of domains documenting the ways that lines of demarcation are themselves deeply political. Commonly held distinctions […]

MMB is at an exciting stage in its development. We have built an interdisciplinary and engaged community of scholars across the University. Our research interests and engagement are incredibly broad – encompassing both migration studies (asylum, family migration, ‘low skilled’ migration, irregular migration) and mobilities (of people, plants, animals, ideas, data). We bring together researchers […]

This lunchtime event will launch MMB's PGR Discussion Group. It will tackle the question ‘What is migration’ and consider definitions and framings of migration, migrants and people on the move. MMB Director Bridget Anderson will kick off the session with a short keynote speech, followed by a 45-minute group discussion and lunch. Participants are encouraged […]

The MMB/ACH webinar series is back! Please join us next month for an online panel discussing migration, education and training, with a particular focus on access to employment and language. Speakers include Sheena Dermanis, Curriculum and Quality Manager at ACH, Rob Sharples, Senior Lecturer in Language and Education at UoB, and Clare Boden-Hatton, Director of […]

The symposium discusses the diverse forms human mobility manifested through musical practice in Latin America and by Latin Americans abroad, thus recognising the growing presence of Latin American and Caribbean communities in the United Kingdom. Our main speakers will be Dr María Emilia TIjoux (University of Chile) and Dr Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway), who will […]

What are the challenges and questions raised by research on violence against migrants? Sylvanna Falcón of UC Santa Cruz and a UoB visiting scholar will lead a conversation on this subject, drawing on research that has documented hundreds of incidents violence against migrants in Mexico on their way to seek asylum in the United States. […]

A research talk by Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. Since the mid-twentieth century, thousands of rural migrants moved to the city of Cartagena in Caribbean Colombia, seeking a better life. Among these were men and women from Palenque, a former maroon community. Since their arrival in […]

How can we have broader stories about the Caribbean across borders, whether those be boundaries of empire, language or discipline, and within academia, educational institutions and beyond? We will be thinking through these questions with visiting scholar Orlando Deavila Pertuz, from the International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. What stories are told […]