How migration is integrally related to and a part of other movements (e.g. other life forms, trade, data, ideas, disease) is typically overlooked or oversimplified. We will explore how mobilities are interconnected, taking migration as our starting point, but extending to include, for example, environmental and data justice.
Selected UoB Research Projects
- PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges & Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures
- ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
- Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers in Hungary through Public Procurement
- Staging Migrant Voices: Cabaret and Transnational Networks in 20th-Century Britain
Recent blogs:
- Citizen geopolitics: understanding the role of migrant naturalisation in the transformations in the Middle EastBy Paladia Ziss. Naturalisation is usually seen as a process by which migrants access the rights, duties and passport of their country of residence. They may feel that they belong there and want to be able to stay, have a say in its politics or access better jobs. States also have interests in naturalising migrants,… Read more: Citizen geopolitics: understanding the role of migrant naturalisation in the transformations in the Middle East
- Curating Waymarkers – an exhibition visualising mobility, connection and friendshipBy Liz Hingley. ‘A person in any country begins their relationship, adventures and acquires an identity, whether temporary or long, when they put the SIM card of that country in their phone.’Kacem, from Syria to the Bibby Stockholm Barge, 2020 The words of Kacem frame the door of an old Victorian shop on the Strand… Read more: Curating Waymarkers – an exhibition visualising mobility, connection and friendship
- After border externalisation: migration, race and labour in MauritaniaNew writing on migration and mobilities – an MMB special series By Hassan Ould Moctar. In March 2024, the Mauritanian government signed a migration partnership agreement with Spain and the European Commission, the stated aim being to address a surge of unwanted migrant arrivals on the Canary Islands. While unprecedented in financial scope, this was… Read more: After border externalisation: migration, race and labour in Mauritania
- 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 one of the world’s most restrictive spouse and partner immigration systems. The UK government has long suggested increasing restrictions to the rights of citizens to be joined… Read more: Are the UK’s immigration rules forcing couples into marriage?
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