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:
- 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?
- 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
