The prevailing global north construction of childhood as a period of innocence and dependence means that the independent mobility of those deemed to be children (whether in search of pleasure, earning opportunities, or even safety) is imagined as fraught with danger. It is frequently discussed under the rubric of ‘trafficking’, whether or not movement was […]

The (de)Bordering team, co-led by MMB Director Bridget Anderson and funded by the Brigstow Institute, are building a unique meeting place and we need help. If you have been around Royal Fort Gardens in the past couple of weeks you will have noticed new planting and an intriguing new construction. Do you want to be […]

Please join us for a book launch and debate of Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (OUP, 2021) by Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty. This timely new book includes an in-depth analysis of asylum policies in three developing countries - Egypt, Turkey and Kenya - and sheds light on asylum policymaking in the global South, where the […]

*** Please note this event has been rescheduled to 30th June*** This month the MMB Reading Group discusses Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (Cambridge University Press, 2012). In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the […]

The reading group will meet over the summer to discuss the new book by Chandran Kukathas, Immigration and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2021). To register for the meeting, please fill in this form.   More about the book: Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their […]

After so long meeting only on screen we are very excited to be able to see each other face to face in 3D! Please join MMB and the Centre for Environmental Humanities in a 'Celebration of Presence and Movement'. Leave behind your laptops, forget Zoom, junk Teams and come for a walk with us along […]

A webinar with a leading immigration lawyer to discuss the key points of the new bill. . This summer the UK Nationality and Borders Bill passed its second reading. What is new? What is unworkable? What will change? Come to MMB’s online seminar with barrister, founder and editor of the Free Movement website Colin Yeo, to learn more. […]

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 […]