Please note the change of date. Join us to celebrate International Day of Disabled People and view progress on a mural conveying the messages of disabled people and asylum seekers living in the Bristol area. People are working with artist Andrew Bolton to create a painted mural on the wall of the Easton Community Centre […]

*** This talk will now be held online*** Jing Hiah is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Rubicon Postdoctoral Researcher. She will be visiting the University of Bristol from December 2021 until July 2023 as a guest of MMB and SPAIS. During […]

*** CANCELLED *** Due to the worsening COVID situation we are having to cancel this Christmas gathering. It’s really disappointing but feels like the right thing to do as infection rates rise again and the new variant starts doing the rounds. But we are going to plan a great summer party instead, and hope that […]

This month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica by Luke de Noronha (Manchester University Press, 2020). What is it like to be deported from everything you know, exiled from parents, partners, children and friends? How do people who left Jamaica as infants deal with their forced return? How […]

*** Please note the new date for this meeting*** The MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2021) by Amélie Le Renard. Nearly 90 per cent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western […]

Join MMB's Representation, Belonging, Futures research challenge for a group tour of Spike Island's new exhibitions: 'Pigs and Poison' by Candice Lin and 'Nosferasta', a film by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer. Both exhibitions focus on colonial encounters and legacies, using different mediums to explore experiences of race, diaspora, citizenship and imperial conquest. In 'Pigs […]

*** Please note the change of date *** A lunchtime symposium bringing together academic experts with a background in sociology, migration studies, law and critical race theory to discuss their research on the experience of migrants and minority ethnic groups in the UK labour market. The symposium is co-hosted by Migration Mobilities Bristol and the […]

The Department of Film and Television (FTV) invite you to a screening and talks about ‘African Apocalypse’, a new film about Africa’s colonial past. The event is co-organised with Migration Mobilities Bristol, the Perivoli Africa Research Centre and Afrika Eye. ‘African Apocalypse’ is the story of a young man’s epic journey across Africa in search of a […]

Join Brigstow and Migration Mobilities Bristol for lunch at the (de)Bordering hearth to meet others, enjoy an interdisciplinary conversation or three, and think about future uses of the (de)Bordering spaces. For those of you not aware, (de)Bordering is a joint project between Brigstow and Migration Mobilities Bristol. The plots have already hosted rich and varied […]

Members of the new MMB PGR network will meet to introduce their projects to each other, share ideas about migration and mobilities research, and make connections to help build a community of postgraduates working in this field at Bristol. If you would like to take part, please get in touch.