New life or no life: Reflections and readjustment of return Filipino migrant domestic workers from Hong Kong’ – Seminar with Dr Yuk Wah Chan
Ground Floor Meeting Room 1 Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomSitting next to one of the village houses in San Fernando, Hildrid sighed, “We have so many memories of Hong Kong!” Many Filipino domestic workers who once worked in Hong Kong (HK) have settled back in their home country. Yet, connection with HK continued through frequent WhatsApp or Messenger messages with former employers and fellow […]
MMB Mid-Winter Drinks!
Priory Road Cafe Priory Road Complex, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomJoin us to celebrate the start of 2024 and welcome in another year of MMB events and activities! February can be grim, so this can be a bright spot in your calendar! It will be a chance to catch up with MMB colleagues and to meet our Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Victoria Hattam, who will be […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group
Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, BristolThe third MMB PGR discussion group will focus on ‘Political imagination and (academic) activism’. Building on previous discussions, we will explore the opportunities and frontiers of our imagination, political and […]
MMB Reading Group – John Hultgren (2015)
Meeting Room 1 1 Priory Road, BristolOur first reading group meeting of 2024 will be discussing John Hultgren's book Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Led by […]
SPAIS Annual/Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture 2024 – Victoria Hattam – ‘Border Economies / Capitalist Imaginaries’
Lecture Theatre 2D3 Priory Road Complex, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomHow do the contradictory demands of border walls and supply chains co-exist? Each of these political forces pushes in contradictory directions: sovereignty and walls seek to establish territorial limits while […]
Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Discourses and Policies on Immigration
Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, BristolThe UK has recently seen an increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing politics, alongside a surge in harmful, anti-immigration policies and discourses enacted by incumbent politicians who are often […]
MMB Film Group: ‘La Permanence’/ ‘On Call’ (Alice Diop, 2016)
The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, BristolScreening and discussion of Alice Diop's documentary film 'La Permanence'/ 'On Call' (2016). In French with English subtitles, 97 mins. Migrants file in and out of a refugee medical centre […]
CLW talk: Decent Work for Displaced People: Organizing in Response to Labour Abuses of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Colombia and Brazil
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, BristolA 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? […]
Privatisation of the Digital Hostile Environment: A Seminar with Kaelynn Narita
Room 2D2, Priory Road Complex Block D, Priory Road, Bristol, United KingdomThis 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 […]
MMB PGR Discussion Group: Decolonising migration research: (Not) just a metaphor?
Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, BristolWe 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 […]