This is a joint seminar with Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research. Casino Asia: How do casinos transform social imaginations? To register for a free in-person ticket, please sign up on Eventbrite. To register for a free online ticket, please sign up on Zoom. Abstract: The rapid proliferation of casino-resorts in Asia and their unique integration into the […]

Chair: Ann Singleton, Reader in Migration Policy, University of Bristol. Speakers: Dr Frank Laczko, former Director of IOM GMDAC and the former Head of Research at IOM, Elisa Mosler Vidal, DPhil candidate in Migration Studies, COMPAS, and Marzia Rango, Migration and Human Mobility Specialist at the UN Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC) in the UN Secretariat in New York. Discussant: Diego Iturralde, Chief Director […]

UK premier of a documentary short about the challenges faced by domestic workers in Colombia commuting on public transport. 'Invisible’ (30 mins). A documentary short by Valentina Montoya Robledo and Daniel Gómez Restrepo. (Spanish, with English subtitles). Register to attend the screening here. Two domestic workers, Reinalda in Medellín and Belén in Bogotá, explain the […]

Sitting 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 […]

Join 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 […]

The 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 institutional contexts and academic paradigms. We will link these debates to questions around (academic) activism and ethical responsibility within migration research.   We are honoured […]

Our 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 MMB's Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Victoria Hattam, the meeting will focus in particular on Chapter 2, 'Naturalizing Nativism'. Please fill in this form if you would […]

How 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 globalization, by definition, is a boundary crossing enterprise. Yet, both are flourishing simultaneously: how are the contradictory demands reconciled? Drawing on research along the U.S.- […]

The 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 the children or grandchildren of racialised migrants. How can we understand the relationship between these two seemingly incongruous processes? This seminar brings together two papers […]

Screening 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 […]