MMB is running a new reading group for its members in 2021! This is a forum to discuss migration and mobility-related texts that members have enjoyed reading and are keen to debate. Please contact Sarah Kunz (sarah.kunz@bristol.ac.uk) or the MMB team (mmb-sri@bristol.ac.uk) if there is an article or book you would like to discuss with […]

Migrants and refugees often see enterprise as their route to opportunity. But, in many cases, they are regarded as doing so out of necessity and given low priority by mainstream organisations providing business support. This can lead to greater precarity for those seeking this route. This seminar asks, are we missing an opportunity, both to […]

Ethics, Well-being and Security: Fasten Your Seatbelts! Hello again! We are happy to announce the last seminar of the series Unpacking Fieldwork in challenging settings! After addressing power relations and gender, we will now focus on three topics that are of paramount importance to all fieldworkers: ethics, researchers’ well-being and security during fieldwork. As you […]

A recording of the event is available here. MMB is delighted to welcome Pablo Ceriani and Alvaro Botero to the first of our online Latin America Dialogues. In conversation with Diego Acosta – MMB’s International Strategic Lead – they will discuss the UN’s International Migrant Workers Convention, adopted by the General Assembly 30 years ago. […]

This month we discuss Mimi Sheller's book Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018), in which she makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement. 'Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She connects the body, street, […]

The Colombian government recently announced the launching of a programme to grant 10-year complementary protection and legal status to the approximately 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees in the country. This decision was considered 'historical' by the United Nations and received worldwide attention - it represents a clear shift in how the South American region […]

‘Integration’ can be a controversial concept. When applied to migrant communities it has often been associated with assimilation, a ‘one-way’ process treating migrants as ‘others’ who need to ‘fit in’. […]

A webinar reflecting on the experience of child migration and the failings of global policies to protect children on the move. : At 9.30am on 27th October 2020 three young […]

*** POSTPONED*** Details of new date to follow. The MMB series Childhood on the Move continues with a discussion of Michael Winterbottom's renowned film.   ‘In This World’ (Michael Winterbottom, […]

This month the MMB reading group discusses Nandita Sharma’s recent book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020, Duke University Press). In this book she explores how the current political order of nation-states institutionalises the notion that each ‘people’ has its own place in the world by limiting access to […]