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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 in the suburbs of Paris. Their suffering has been intensified by their journeys to France, and by the precarity of their daily lives. Within a […]

A 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? What else do they need to be able to achieve decent wages and working conditions? This talk will explore these questions in the context of […]

This 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 fallacy of technosolutionism held by the Home Office. As the standards, procedures and processes of the Home Office become increasingly automated, tracing the production conditions […]