- Home and researching home from near and farBy Nyi Nyi Kyaw. My self and my work I am from Myanmar and most of my academic work on identity, displacement, migration, mobility and immobility focuses on this country. Having been (self-)exiled and displaced for a number of years I have had the opportunity to think about and research home from near and far,… Read more: Home and researching home from near and far
- Call to arms, but to whom? Conscription, race and the nation in South KoreaA special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Minjae Shin. Military service is mandatory in South Korea (hereafter Korea). Over the past ten years, one of the main concerns of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces (hereafter ‘Korean military’) is the integration of… Read more: Call to arms, but to whom? Conscription, race and the nation in South Korea
- Refugee women’s struggles for rights and stability: insights from an intersectional lens A special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Maite Ibáñez Bollerhoff. As a researcher exploring the experiences of refugee women in small German towns, I have come to understand the critical importance of applying a postcolonial and intersectional lens to capture the complexity… Read more: Refugee women’s struggles for rights and stability: insights from an intersectional lens
- The problem of promoting legal identities for all in anti-trafficking workA special series from the Migration Research Group of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. By Natalie Brinham. Recently, there has been an increased interest in how a lack of legal identities, or state-issued documents, is connected to the risks of trafficking and modern slavery. As someone who… Read more: The problem of promoting legal identities for all in anti-trafficking work
- 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 MMB special series by the SPAIS Migration Group, a collective of researchers in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol… 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 families. In early August 2024 the UK experienced a wave of fascist violence and organised hate of the kind not witnessed since the 1980s. Far right activists… Read more: The racist politics of ‘mindless thuggery’
- Bordering Bristol: looking to seeBy Bridget Anderson and Emma Newcombe. Between February and July 2024 MMB was delighted to host Victoria Hattam, Professor of Politics from the New School For Social Research, New York, as Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor. One of the key themes emerging from her visit was how we can incorporate visuality into our methodological toolbox. We… Read more: Bordering Bristol: looking to see
- Across the waters: Caribbean mobilities, itineraries, historiesBy Orlando Deavila Pertuz and Bethan Fisk. What stories are told about the Caribbean? What do these narratives exclude? How can we broaden the story? And how can we teach a wider vision of the Caribbean to students of all ages and wider publics? Orlando Deavila Pertuz from the Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe… Read more: Across the waters: Caribbean mobilities, itineraries, histories
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