MMB 2021 AGM

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 […]

No Recourse to Public Funds – Manufacturing Destitution

Webinar

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 […]

Citizenship in Myanmar: Past and Future

Online symposium

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 […]

‘Hold Back the Dawn’ (1941) – ‘in motion’ MMB Film Group screening

The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol

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 […]

MMB Reading Group – ‘No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis’ by Serena Parekh

Online meeting

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 […]

Vigil for Those Who Have Died at Borders

Royal Fort Gardens

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 […]

Migrant Workers of Ethnic Minority Labour Force? What’s the Difference, What’s the Same?

Webinar

*** Postponed due to industrial action ***   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 […]

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 Kingdom

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 […]

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 […]