Name: ‘Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration’ by Natasha Carver: book launch
Start: 2021-05-25T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-05-25T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Online webinar

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February 2021
Monday 8 February 2021 at 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm

Bridging the Gap – Bringing Together Research, Policy and Delivery on Migration. An ACH/MMB seminar

Migrants and refugees often see enterprise as their route to opportunity. But, in many cases, they are regarded as doing so out of necessity and given low priority by mainstream […]
Wednesday 17 February 2021 at 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Unpacking Fieldwork in Challenging Settings (3)

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 […]
Thursday 25 February 2021 at 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

The UN Convention on Migrant Workers 30 Years On: Assessing its Positive Impacts

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 […]
March 2021
Wednesday 17 March 2021 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

MMB Reading Group – ‘Mobility Justice’ by Mimi Sheller

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 […]
Wednesday 31 March 2021 at 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Protecting Venezuelans in Colombia: Reflections from Across the Region

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. […]
April 2021
Monday 19 April 2021 at 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Beyond Integration | Bringing Together Research, Policy and Delivery on Integration

‘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’. […]
Wednesday 28 April 2021 at 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Remember and Respond: Child Migrants and the Lives Behind the Data

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 […]
Thursday 29 April 2021 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

‘In This World’: an MMB film group discussion

*** 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, […]
May 2021
Wednesday 5 May 2021 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

MMB Reading Group – ‘Home Rule’ by Nandita Sharma

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 […]
Tuesday 25 May 2021 at 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

‘Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration’ by Natasha Carver: book launch

Online webinar

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 […]