MMB is at an exciting stage in its development. We have built an interdisciplinary and engaged community of scholars across the University. Our research interests and engagement are incredibly broad – encompassing both migration studies (asylum, family migration, ‘low skilled’ migration, irregular migration) and mobilities (of people, plants, animals, ideas, data). We bring together researchers […]

This lunchtime event will launch MMB's PGR Discussion Group. It will tackle the question ‘What is migration’ and consider definitions and framings of migration, migrants and people on the move. MMB Director Bridget Anderson will kick off the session with a short keynote speech, followed by a 45-minute group discussion and lunch. Participants are encouraged […]

The MMB/ACH webinar series is back! Please join us next month for an online panel discussing migration, education and training, with a particular focus on access to employment and language. Speakers include Sheena Dermanis, Curriculum and Quality Manager at ACH, Rob Sharples, Senior Lecturer in Language and Education at UoB, and Clare Boden-Hatton, Director of […]

The symposium discusses the diverse forms human mobility manifested through musical practice in Latin America and by Latin Americans abroad, thus recognising the growing presence of Latin American and Caribbean communities in the United Kingdom. Our main speakers will be Dr María Emilia TIjoux (University of Chile) and Dr Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway), who will […]

What are the challenges and questions raised by research on violence against migrants? Sylvanna Falcón of UC Santa Cruz and a UoB visiting scholar will lead a conversation on this subject, drawing on research that has documented hundreds of incidents violence against migrants in Mexico on their way to seek asylum in the United States. […]

A research talk by Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. Since the mid-twentieth century, thousands of rural migrants moved to the city of Cartagena in Caribbean Colombia, seeking a better life. Among these were men and women from Palenque, a former maroon community. Since their arrival in […]

How can we have broader stories about the Caribbean across borders, whether those be boundaries of empire, language or discipline, and within academia, educational institutions and beyond? We will be thinking through these questions with visiting scholar Orlando Deavila Pertuz, from the International Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. What stories are told […]

This month the MMB reading group, led by MMB Research Coordinator Juan Zhang, will be discussing Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou's recent book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (NYU Press, 2022). In particular, the group will discuss the introduction, 'The Digital Border: The Techno-Symbolic Assemblages of Power', and chapter 2, 'The Inner Border: Assemblages of […]

A seminar with Sylvanna Falcón, UC Santa Cruz. Representation can be quite challenging to navigate when societies are divided about how to memorialize a tragedy. In the case of Perú, this tension came to the fore with the creation of human rights memorials to commemorate the lives of those affected by the internal conflict of […]

Join us for a tour of Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), a unique part of the university where interdisciplinary teams work together with the aim of shaping digital futures that work for all. Many MMB members will be very conscious of the challenges of achieving this aim, and that all too often digital technologies work […]