This blog series, unlike our others has not been curated, but brings together posts discussing issues of policy, politics and practice in relation to migration, citizenship, asylum and integration. The series will grow organically as relevant blogs are posted. Visit our page for further details on MMB’s members, projects, events and publications in this area.
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Selected Blog Posts
- Are the UK’s immigration rules forcing couples into marriage?A special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Nicole Hoellerer and Katharine Charsley. The UK has… Read more: Are the UK’s immigration rules forcing couples into marriage?
- Privatised border regulation, AI, MigTech and public procurementMigration, Mobilities and Digital Technologies – a special series published in association with the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures. By Albert Sanchez-Graells. Moving across borders used to involve direct… Read more: Privatised border regulation, AI, MigTech and public procurement
- Ukrainian refugees – the new white Other in British discourses?A special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Magda Mogilnicka. This year has marked the 20th… Read more: Ukrainian refugees – the new white Other in British discourses?
- From documentation to computation: the shifting logic of UK border controlMigration, Mobilities and Digital Technologies – a special series published in association with the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures. By Kuba Jablonowski. The UK immigration status is going online.… Read more: From documentation to computation: the shifting logic of UK border control
- New questions for the UK’s seasonal worker schemeA special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Lydia Medland. The pen asks:… Read more: New questions for the UK’s seasonal worker scheme
- Moving as being: introducing the SPAIS Migration Group blog seriesA special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Samuel Okyere. Welcome to the… Read more: Moving as being: introducing the SPAIS Migration Group blog series
- The racist politics of ‘mindless thuggery’By Dan Godshaw, Ann Singleton and Bridget Anderson. We pay respect to the memory of the children killed and to those injured in Southport as well as their… Read more: The racist politics of ‘mindless thuggery’
- Why do we use the term ‘irregular migration’ and can it be translated?By Edanur Yazici and Bridget Anderson. The term ‘illegal immigration’ is often used in discussions about immigration but is widely agreed to be pejorative, misleading, and stigmatising by scholars,… Read more: Why do we use the term ‘irregular migration’ and can it be translated?
- Hysteria and disinterest: accommodating asylum seekersBy Melanie Griffiths. The UK’s asylum system is in crisis. Despite the government’s rhetoric, this is largely a crisis of the Home Office’s own making. Years of painfully… Read more: Hysteria and disinterest: accommodating asylum seekers
- Navigating ethical emotions in European migration enforcementNew writing on migration and mobilities – an MMB special series By Ioana Vrăbiescu and Bridget Anderson. The European Union represents itself as a global champion of human… Read more: Navigating ethical emotions in European migration enforcement
- Instead of separating thousands more families, rethink UK family migration policiesBy Katharine Charsley and Helena Wray. Last week, new immigration rules were laid before parliament that will force thousands of British citizens and settled residents to live apart… Read more: Instead of separating thousands more families, rethink UK family migration policies
- Obstacles and aspirations: stories from young refugees in the UK education systemBy Jáfia Naftali Câmara. ‘Refugee Stories: Education: Obstacles and Aspirations‘ draws on findings from my doctoral research project on young refugees’ educational experiences in the UK. The study… Read more: Obstacles and aspirations: stories from young refugees in the UK education system
- Debordering Higher EducationBy Edanur Yazici. On 4th December 2023, the Home Secretary announced a series of policy changes with the aim of reducing net migration. Among the changes announced was… Read more: Debordering Higher Education
- Reporting Sounds: the lived impact of UK Home Office reporting on the lives of asylum seekersBy Amanda Schmid-Scott. Forty minutes into the bus journey that takes me from the bustling streets of Bristol’s city centre, through Bishopston and Horfield, and slowly along Gloucester… Read more: Reporting Sounds: the lived impact of UK Home Office reporting on the lives of asylum seekers
- Invisible: domestic workers’ commutes in Latin AmericaBy Valentina Montoya Robledo and Rachel Randall. Read the Spanish version here. Domestic workers make up one in every five working women in Latin America, totalling approximately 13… Read more: Invisible: domestic workers’ commutes in Latin America
- Migration and mobilities research: making connections for social justiceBy Bridget Anderson. Happy New Year all. Let’s hope that 2024 brings more peace and justice than 2023. We need it. It is difficult to be hopeful in… Read more: Migration and mobilities research: making connections for social justice
- Bad cases make bad law: the unintended consequences of denaturalising bad guysBy Colin Yeo. The power to denaturalise a British subject on the basis of their behaviour was first introduced by legislation in 1918. With some adjustments, the power… Read more: Bad cases make bad law: the unintended consequences of denaturalising bad guys
- Breaching two worlds: seeing through borders in CalaisBorderland Infrastructures – an MMB special series exploring the material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port cities of Calais and Dover. By Bridget Anderson. As… Read more: Breaching two worlds: seeing through borders in Calais
- Imperial denaturalisation: towards an end to empireBy Colin Yeo. As the British empire gradually remodelled itself into a British nation state over the course of the twentieth century, it was inevitable that problems would… Read more: Imperial denaturalisation: towards an end to empire
- Disablement and resistance in the British immigration systemBy Rebecca Yeo. The distinction between deserving and undeserving individuals has always been core to immigration policy in the UK. However, the hostility and restrictions directed at those… Read more: Disablement and resistance in the British immigration system