‘THIS JUNGO LIFE’ (2024, 78mins) takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco. Forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, they are unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. Produced in collaboration […]

'Does Skill Make Us Human? Skill and Political Personhood Around the World' Professor Natasha Iskander (New York University) Organised by the Work Futures Research Group and co-sponsored by Migration Mobilities Bristol, Centre of Law at Work and the WEOPP Seminar Series.   Skill – and especially the distinction between “skilled” and “unskilled” – is generally defined as a […]

Continuing our thread of critical approaches to migration studies, we will be paying attention to perspectives on Queer(ing) Migration, particularly to challenge understandings of queer liberation through migration. Which bodies are afforded opportunities to migrate? How do borders act as violent regulators of Western understandings of sex, genders, and sexualities? How might queer perspectives challenge […]

This session will focus on creative methodologies in migration research, considering their potential to address and redress uneven relationships of power within knowledge production, particularly in terms of decolonising research. We are honoured to have MMB Honorary Artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley join us for this session, who will kick off the discussion with a short […]

In 1951, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas travelled through Iran on an assignment to write a Technicolour prestige film for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It was the company’s ‘most important […]

Please join us for an online discussion of our new edited collection, Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race (Bristol University Press, 2025), which presents a radically interdisciplinary approach to migration and […]

Despite the longstanding recognition of passing, for example, as a feature of the reproduction of race and racial injustice, the interconnections of race, secrecy and mobilities remains underexplored and undervalued […]

‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’ Professor Miriam Ticktin If you would like to attend please register on the Eventbrite page. Migration is a lightning […]

A workshop with Professor Miriam Ticktin to explore experiences of discomfort while conducting research and the ethical questions these raise. This workshop will bring together colleagues from different disciplines to […]