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:
- Looking back to ‘The Postcolonial Age of Migration’: a post-pandemic viewNew writing on migration and mobilities – an MMB special series By Ranabir Samaddar. My book The Postcolonial Age of Migration was published in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic raged in India and […]
- Organising against fear: migrant nannies and domestic workers during COVIDNew writing on migration and mobilities – an MMB special series By Maud Perrier Migrant nannies and domestic workers were largely absent from mainstream feminist commentary during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as […]
- The cure or the cause? The impact of medical tourism on global health inequalityBy Ella Barclay. Migration motivated by the improvement of one’s health is not a new phenomenon. Nineteenth-century doctors around the world prescribed visits to foreign spas to improve wellbeing and London’s Harley […]
- ‘Six new home carers near you!’ How digital platforms shape domestic servicesBy Jing Hiah. Finding cleaning and child rearing services is easier than ever in many parts of the world. Install an app on your phone and start browsing through hundreds of (female) […]
- The power of collaborative art in research for social changeBy Rebecca Yeo. On Human Rights Day, 10th December 2021, a mural on the wall of Easton Community Centre was officially opened. It brings together and promotes messages from Deaf, Disabled and […]
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.