Ethics, Well-being and Security: Fasten Your Seatbelts! Hello again! We are happy to announce the last seminar of the series Unpacking Fieldwork in challenging settings! After addressing power relations and gender, we will now focus on three topics that are of paramount importance to all fieldworkers: ethics, researchers’ well-being and security during fieldwork. As you […]

A recording of the event is available here. MMB is delighted to welcome Pablo Ceriani and Alvaro Botero to the first of our online Latin America Dialogues. In conversation with Diego Acosta – MMB’s International Strategic Lead – they will discuss the UN’s International Migrant Workers Convention, adopted by the General Assembly 30 years ago. […]

This month we discuss Mimi Sheller's book Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018), in which she makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement. 'Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She connects the body, street, […]

The Colombian government recently announced the launching of a programme to grant 10-year complementary protection and legal status to the approximately 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees in the country. This decision was considered 'historical' by the United Nations and received worldwide attention - it represents a clear shift in how the South American region […]

‘Integration’ can be a controversial concept. When applied to migrant communities it has often been associated with assimilation, a ‘one-way’ process treating migrants as ‘others’ who need to ‘fit in’. This event will challenge past approaches and look ‘beyond integration’ to explore how we can ensure that people fulfil their potential and attain their aspirations […]

A webinar reflecting on the experience of child migration and the failings of global policies to protect children on the move. : At 9.30am on 27th October 2020 three young children and their parents drowned in the Channel as they tried to cross to England. The experiences of children on the move are being lost […]

*** POSTPONED*** Details of new date to follow. The MMB series Childhood on the Move continues with a discussion of Michael Winterbottom's renowned film.   ‘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 […]

This month the MMB reading group discusses Nandita Sharma’s recent book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020, Duke University Press). In this book she explores how the current political order of nation-states institutionalises the notion that each ‘people’ has its own place in the world by limiting access to […]

MMB is very pleased to announce the publication of Natasha Carver’s fantastic book Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the UK (Rutgers University Press, 2021). We are privileged to host the online launch of this lyrical and insightful ethnography of the lives and relationships of UK-Somali migrants. Natasha will introduce the book and […]

What is the relation between migration research, policy and politics? Is there a role for academics in policy making? Is academic research on migration political, or should it stay away from politics? These are the questions we will be thinking through with our panel, including both academics and practitioners in the field of migration politics […]