Migration and Health

MMB has a significant number of members who are interested in health and mobilities/
migration. They include members based in Bristol Medical School as well as others in Psychology, Geography and Sociology. Areas of interest related to migration include health and asylum, racism and health inequalities, mental health and health and social care workers. There is also interest in health and mobilities in terms of organ donation and transplantation, infection and tissue economies.  

Events

‘The Health of Migrants and the Right to Health’

Webinar series and networking event, March to May 2023, co-hosted with the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network. Read more about it on the webpage here.

Latest blogposts:

MMB Insights and Sounds interviews:

Invasive Others: Plants? People? Pathogens?

Professor Miriam Ticktin from The New School for Social Research, New York, in conversation with Professor Bridget Anderson about how the fear of pathogens and viruses and the fear of foreigners and migrants are often superimposed on each other.