‘THIS JUNGO LIFE’: MMB Film Screening and Q&A
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol‘THIS JUNGO LIFE’ (2024, 78mins) takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets […]
‘Does Skill Make Us Human?’ Work Futures Annual Lecture with Professor Natasha Iskander
4.10 4.10, Helen Wodehouse Building, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol'Does Skill Make Us Human? Skill and Political Personhood Around the World' Professor Natasha Iskander (New York University) Organised by the Work Futures Research Group and co-sponsored by Migration Mobilities Bristol, Centre of […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group Workshop and Film Screening: Perspectives on Queer(ing) Migration
LT3 Arts Complex 17 Woodland Road, Bristol, United KingdomContinuing our thread of critical approaches to migration studies, we will be paying attention to perspectives on Queer(ing) Migration, particularly to challenge understandings of queer liberation through migration. Which bodies […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group – Creative Methodologies in Migration Research
AIMS Centre Seminar Room 1 Chemistry Courtyard, Upper Level, Bristol, United KingdomThis session will focus on creative methodologies in migration research, considering their potential to address and redress uneven relationships of power within knowledge production, particularly in terms of decolonising research. […]
Book Launch of MMB Edited Volume: ‘Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race’
Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, BristolRethinking Migration (Bristol University Press, 2025) is an interdisciplinary collection from Migration Mobilities Bristol that presents a new approach to migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also examines the histories of international borders, how they […]
‘Pouring Water on Troubled Oil’ – MMB Film Screening and Discussion
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolIn 1951, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas travelled through Iran on an assignment to write a Technicolour prestige film for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It was the company’s ‘most important […]
‘Rethinking Migration’ – MMB Online Book Launch
Online webinarPlease join us for an online discussion of our new edited collection, Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race (Bristol University Press, 2025), which presents a radically interdisciplinary approach to migration and […]
SPIN/MMB Working Lunch: Race, Secrecy, Mobilities
Royal Fort House University of Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomDespite the longstanding recognition of passing, for example, as a feature of the reproduction of race and racial injustice, the interconnections of race, secrecy and mobilities remains underexplored and undervalued […]
MMB/Anthropology and Archaeology Public Lecture 2025 – Miriam Ticktin
G.09 Lecture Theatre, Fry Building, Woodland Road, Bristol‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’ Professor Miriam Ticktin If you would like to attend please register on the Eventbrite page. Migration is a lightning […]
MMB/ACH Webinar: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE: Policy, Politics and NGOs
Join us for a dynamic webinar that dives into the complex world where advocacy meets administration. We'll unpack how migrant and asylum support NGOs navigate the fine line between grassroots activism and policy-driven professionalism. What happens when political agendas shape humanitarian work? How do organisations stay true to their mission while adapting to ever-shifting policy […]