Increasingly salient, nation, nationality and nationalism both connect ‘race’ and migration and abjure the connections between them. This focus will enable us to engage deeply with historical and decolonial knowledges and make an important contribution to present debates and creative imaginings of futures.
Selected UoB Research Projects
- PRIME – Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe: Variations in vulnerability, host country needs, and policy effectiveness
- UK-EU couples after ‘Brexit: migrantisation and the UK family immigration regime
- Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective – MARS
- Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections
Recent blogs:
- The environment as a necropolitical actor in global border regimesBy Marielys Padua Soto. Borders are often depicted as man-made barriers such as fences, checkpoints and walls. But some of the deadliest borders in the world are not built by human hands. Instead, they are deserts, seas and jungles, environments transformed into barriers through policy neglect and the criminalization of mobility. By closing legal pathways,… Read more: The environment as a necropolitical actor in global border regimes
- Vigilante bordering – implications for immigrant rights protection in South AfricaA special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Enocent Nemuramba. In August 2022, a group of men and women gathered at the entrance of Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, a township near Pretoria, South Africa. They were not patients, nor were they staff.… Read more: Vigilante bordering – implications for immigrant rights protection in South Africa
- 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
- The carceral economies of asylum: who’s working the border?By Eda Yazici. The UK government’s new immigration white paper, Restoring Control over the Immigration System, promises to ‘surge resource’ into immigration enforcement. But what does this surge look like on the ground – and who is doing the work? This blog draws on a pilot for a proposed research project with people working in… Read more: The carceral economies of asylum: who’s working the border?
