Casino Asia: How Do Casinos Transform Social Imaginations?
Room 1.01 13 Berkeley Square, Bristol, United KingdomThis is a joint seminar with Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research. Casino Asia: How do casinos transform social imaginations? To register for a free in-person ticket, please sign up on […]
Book launch: ‘Measuring Global Migration: Towards Better Data for All’ by Frank Laczko, Elisa Mosler Vidal and Marzia Rango
Online webinarChair: Ann Singleton, Reader in Migration Policy, University of Bristol. Speakers: Dr Frank Laczko, former Director of IOM GMDAC and the former Head of Research at IOM, Elisa Mosler Vidal, DPhil candidate in Migration Studies, […]
‘Invisible’ (2024): MMB Film Screening and Panel Discussion
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolUK premier of a documentary short about the challenges faced by domestic workers in Colombia commuting on public transport. 'Invisible’ (30 mins). A documentary short by Valentina Montoya Robledo and […]
New life or no life: Reflections and readjustment of return Filipino migrant domestic workers from Hong Kong’ – Seminar with Dr Yuk Wah Chan
Ground Floor Meeting Room 1 Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomSitting next to one of the village houses in San Fernando, Hildrid sighed, “We have so many memories of Hong Kong!” Many Filipino domestic workers who once worked in Hong […]
MMB Mid-Winter Drinks!
Priory Road Cafe Priory Road Complex, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomJoin us to celebrate the start of 2024 and welcome in another year of MMB events and activities! February can be grim, so this can be a bright spot in […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group
Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, BristolThe third MMB PGR discussion group will focus on ‘Political imagination and (academic) activism’. Building on previous discussions, we will explore the opportunities and frontiers of our imagination, political and institutional contexts and academic paradigms. We will link these debates to questions around (academic) activism and ethical responsibility within migration research. We are honoured […]
MMB Reading Group – John Hultgren (2015)
Meeting Room 1 1 Priory Road, BristolOur first reading group meeting of 2024 will be discussing John Hultgren's book Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Led by […]
SPAIS Annual/Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture 2024 – Victoria Hattam – ‘Border Economies / Capitalist Imaginaries’
Lecture Theatre 2D3 Priory Road Complex, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomHow do the contradictory demands of border walls and supply chains co-exist? Each of these political forces pushes in contradictory directions: sovereignty and walls seek to establish territorial limits while […]
Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Discourses and Policies on Immigration
Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, BristolThe UK has recently seen an increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing politics, alongside a surge in harmful, anti-immigration policies and discourses enacted by incumbent politicians who are often […]
MMB Film Group: ‘La Permanence’/ ‘On Call’ (Alice Diop, 2016)
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolScreening and discussion of Alice Diop's documentary film 'La Permanence'/ 'On Call' (2016). In French with English subtitles, 97 mins. Migrants file in and out of a refugee medical centre […]