UK Nationality and Borders Bill: an evaluation with Colin Yeo
WebinarA 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 […]
‘Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence’ book launch
WebinarAn 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 […]
‘In This World’: MMB Film Group screening
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolA 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 […]
MMB Reading Group – ‘Worldmaking after Empire’ by Adom Getachew
Online meetingThis 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 […]
Reparations – Meeting Bristol’s Responsibilities
WebinarA 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 […]
MMB 2021 AGM
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 […]
No Recourse to Public Funds – Manufacturing Destitution
WebinarThe 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, […]
Citizenship in Myanmar: Past and Future
Online symposiumA roundtable bringing together researchers working on issues of citizenship, statelessness and civil documentation among minority communities in Myanmar. Myanmar's 'unofficial minorities' - or those not recognized as belonging to […]
‘Hold Back the Dawn’ (1941) – ‘in motion’ MMB Film Group screening
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolScreening and discussion on a forgotten Hollywood classic about love at the border: Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941). Directed by underrated Hollywood director Mitchell Leisen, and co-written by […]
MMB Reading Group – ‘No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis’ by Serena Parekh
Online meetingThis month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis by Serena Parekh (Oxford University Press, 2020). Details from the publisher: 'This […]