An online launch bringing together the editors and authors of a ground-breaking new collection. . Stealing Time draws together empirical contributions that focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys. The book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of legal and […]

A screening and discussion of Michael Winterbottom's renowned 2002 film about Afghan refugees. . In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002) Shot on digital video camcorders, with non-professional actors, this drama documentary follows two young Afghan boys, Jamal Udin Torabi and his cousin Enayatullah, as they embark on an arduous journey from Shamshatoo refugee camp in […]

This month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss Adom Getachew's award-winning book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press, 2019).   About the book: Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a […]

A webinar contextualising Bristol's response to its role in the transatlantic slave trade. On 2 March 2021 Bristol City Council passed a resolution on the need for 'Atonement and Reparations for Bristol’s Role in the Transatlantic Traffic of Enslaved Afrikans'. This issue has been taken up by the University of Bristol and many of those […]

The online AGM is a chance to tell MMB members about our activities over the past year, listen to their feedback and discuss our draft annual report. We will also be introducing the new version of our Research Challenges. In the second part of the meeting we will break into smaller groups to give members […]

The ACH/MMB Seminar Series 2021 continues with a focus on the issue of no recourse to public funds faced by tens of thousands of migrants to the UK. In 2020, research suggested nearly 1.4 million people in the UK had no recourse to public funds (NRPF), with the burden of restrictions falling disproportionately on people […]

A roundtable bringing together researchers working on issues of citizenship, statelessness and civil documentation among minority communities in Myanmar. Myanmar's 'unofficial minorities' - or those not recognized as belonging to one of the state's 135 official 'ethnic nationalities' - face severe challenges and discrimination in accessing citizenship documentation and by extension, government services and rights […]

Screening and discussion on a forgotten Hollywood classic about love at the border: Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941). Directed by underrated Hollywood director Mitchell Leisen, and co-written by Billy Wilder, Hold Back the Dawn (1941) is a melancholic romantic drama centring on Georges Iscovescu (Charles Boyer, Gaslight), a Romanian refugee stuck in a Mexican border town […]

This month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis by Serena Parekh (Oxford University Press, 2020).   Details from the publisher: 'This book confronts the ethical dimension of the global refugee crisis. When most people think of the global refugee crisis, they think of Syrians crossing the […]

More unnecessary deaths at the border, loss, pain and shameful injustice. On 29th November we are asking those of you who can to set aside 15 minutes at 5pm to think about what things you and we can do in response. We will hold a vigil at the (de)Bordering plot from 5.30-6pm to remember all […]