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 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. […]
‘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 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 […]
‘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 […]