A talk by Jennifer Gordon (Fordham University School of Law), hosted by the Centre for Law at Work. How much difference does a work permit make for migrants and refugees? What else do they need to be able to achieve decent wages and working conditions? This talk will explore these questions in the context of […]

This talk explores the pattern of using private actors to build, design and maintain border technology in the UK. By exploring the privatisation of the so-called Digital Hostile Environment I reveal the fallacy of technosolutionism held by the Home Office. As the standards, procedures and processes of the Home Office become increasingly automated, tracing the production conditions […]

We are pleased to invite you to the final MMB PGR discussion group for this academic year, which will focus on the issue of decolonisation. Building on previous sessions, we will explore what ‘decolonisation’ means in the context of migration research and evaluate the strengths and limitations of existing anti-colonial research agendas.  We are thrilled to have […]

Join us to celebrate all the hard work that has gone into your failed grant applications! We know how much energy and labour are put into developing a bid and […]

This workshop takes as its starting point that our notions of production are changing. Old assumptions about what makes globalization work are being challenged on many fronts. Some of those […]

An afternoon workshop run by Victoria Hattam (MMB Leverhulme Visiting Professor) and Nariman Massoumi to explore the dynamics of visual fields through the collaborative making of visual essays. Lunch provided! […]

Dr Gimena del Rio Riande is a researcher at CONICET (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and director of the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities. Over the past ten years we have witnessed […]

Film screening and talks on the experience of people seeking asylum in Brazil, the UK, and Greece As part of a European Research Council-funded project (MMPPF) that uses the histories […]

Dr Adriana Suárez Delucchi, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile               Please join us to welcome Adriana Suárez back to Bristol. She will be in […]

A public lecture by our Leverhulme Visiting Professor Victoria Hattam from The New School for Research, New York. Followed by a drinks reception. Imagination, Hattam contends, is a central aspect […]