MMB Latin America Research Workshop
*** Postponed due to industrial action *** The workshop will be an opportunity for members of MMB Latin America to present their current research and its migration and mobilities angle, and then receive feedback from the group. We will also be discussing future activities for the group in 2022. If you would like to […]
Celebration of New Mural at Easton Community Centre
Easton Community Centre Kilburn Street, Easton, Bristol, United KingdomPlease 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 […]
New Mobilities or Persistent Inequalities? Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the Exploitation of Digitalised Domestic Labour (a Prospective Study)
Webinar*** 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 […]
MMB Christmas Gathering!
Hepple Lecture Theatre School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, United Kingdom*** 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 […]
MMB Reading Group: ‘Deporting Black Britons’ by Luke de Noronha
Online meetingThis 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 […]
MMB Reading Group – ‘Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai’ by Amélie Le Renard
Online meeting*** 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 […]
Spike Island Exhibition Tour: ‘Pigs and Poison’ and ‘Nosferasta’
Spike Island 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomJoin 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 […]
Migrant Workers or Ethnic Minority Labour Force – What’s the Difference, What’s the Same?
Webinar*** 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 […]
‘African Apocalypse’ (2020) screening
Winston Theatre First Floor, Richmond Building, 105 Queens Road, BristolThe 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 […]
Plotting at the (de)Bordering Hearth
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. […]