*** Please note this event has been rescheduled to 30th June*** This month the MMB Reading Group discusses Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (Cambridge University Press, 2012). In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the […]

The reading group will meet over the summer to discuss the new book by Chandran Kukathas, Immigration and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2021). To register for the meeting, please fill in this form.   More about the book: Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their […]

After so long meeting only on screen we are very excited to be able to see each other face to face in 3D! Please join MMB and the Centre for Environmental Humanities in a 'Celebration of Presence and Movement'. Leave behind your laptops, forget Zoom, junk Teams and come for a walk with us along […]

A webinar with a leading immigration lawyer to discuss the key points of the new bill. . This summer the UK Nationality and Borders Bill passed its second reading. What is new? What is unworkable? What will change? Come to MMB’s online seminar with barrister, founder and editor of the Free Movement website Colin Yeo, to learn more. […]

An online launch bringing together the editors and authors of a ground-breaking new collection. . Stealing Time draws together empirical contributions that focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys. The book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of legal and […]

A screening and discussion of Michael Winterbottom's renowned 2002 film about Afghan refugees. . In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002) Shot on digital video camcorders, with non-professional actors, this drama documentary follows two young Afghan boys, Jamal Udin Torabi and his cousin Enayatullah, as they embark on an arduous journey from Shamshatoo refugee camp in […]

This month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss Adom Getachew's award-winning book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press, 2019).   About the book: Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a […]

A webinar contextualising Bristol's response to its role in the transatlantic slave trade. On 2 March 2021 Bristol City Council passed a resolution on the need for 'Atonement and Reparations for Bristol’s Role in the Transatlantic Traffic of Enslaved Afrikans'. This issue has been taken up by the University of Bristol and many of those […]

The online AGM is a chance to tell MMB members about our activities over the past year, listen to their feedback and discuss our draft annual report. We will also be introducing the new version of our Research Challenges. In the second part of the meeting we will break into smaller groups to give members […]

The ACH/MMB Seminar Series 2021 continues with a focus on the issue of no recourse to public funds faced by tens of thousands of migrants to the UK. In 2020, research suggested nearly 1.4 million people in the UK had no recourse to public funds (NRPF), with the burden of restrictions falling disproportionately on people […]