‘THIS JUNGO LIFE’: MMB Film Screening and Q&A
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol‘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 […]
‘Does Skill Make Us Human?’ Work Futures Annual Lecture with Professor Natasha Iskander
4.10 4.10, Helen Wodehouse Building, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol'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 […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group Workshop and Film Screening: Perspectives on Queer(ing) Migration
LT3 Arts Complex 17 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomContinuing 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 […]