Casino Asia: How Do Casinos Transform Social Imaginations?

Room 1.01 13 Berkeley Square, Bristol, United Kingdom

This is a joint seminar with Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research. Casino Asia: How do casinos transform social imaginations? To register for a free in-person ticket, please sign up on Eventbrite. To register for a free online ticket, please sign up on Zoom. Abstract: The rapid proliferation of casino-resorts in Asia and their unique integration into the […]

Book launch: ‘Measuring Global Migration: Towards Better Data for All’ by Frank Laczko, Elisa Mosler Vidal and Marzia Rango

Online webinar

Chair: Ann Singleton, Reader in Migration Policy, University of Bristol. Speakers: Dr Frank Laczko, former Director of IOM GMDAC and the former Head of Research at IOM, Elisa Mosler Vidal, DPhil candidate in Migration Studies, COMPAS, and Marzia Rango, Migration and Human Mobility Specialist at the UN Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC) in the UN Secretariat in New York. Discussant: Diego Iturralde, Chief Director […]

‘Invisible’ (2024): MMB Film Screening and Panel Discussion

The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol

UK premier of a documentary short about the challenges faced by domestic workers in Colombia commuting on public transport. 'Invisible’ (30 mins). A documentary short by Valentina Montoya Robledo and Daniel Gómez Restrepo. (Spanish, with English subtitles). Register to attend the screening here. Two domestic workers, Reinalda in Medellín and Belén in Bogotá, explain the […]

New life or no life: Reflections and readjustment of return Filipino migrant domestic workers from Hong Kong’ – Seminar with Dr Yuk Wah Chan

Ground Floor Meeting Room 1 Priory Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sitting next to one of the village houses in San Fernando, Hildrid sighed, “We have so many memories of Hong Kong!” Many Filipino domestic workers who once worked in Hong Kong (HK) have settled back in their home country. Yet, connection with HK continued through frequent WhatsApp or Messenger messages with former employers and fellow […]

MMB Mid-Winter Drinks!

Priory Road Cafe Priory Road Complex, Priory Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

Join us to celebrate the start of 2024 and welcome in another year of MMB events and activities! February can be grim, so this can be a bright spot in your calendar! It will be a chance to catch up with MMB colleagues and to meet our Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Victoria Hattam, who will be […]

MMB PGR Discussion Group

Meeting Room 2, First Floor 1 Priory Road, Bristol

The third MMB PGR discussion group will focus on ‘Political imagination and (academic) activism’. Building on previous discussions, we will explore the opportunities and frontiers of our imagination, political and institutional contexts and academic paradigms. We will link these debates to questions around (academic) activism and ethical responsibility within migration research.   We are honoured […]

MMB Reading Group – John Hultgren (2015)

Meeting Room 1 1 Priory Road, Bristol

Our first reading group meeting of 2024 will be discussing John Hultgren's book Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Led by […]

Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Discourses and Policies on Immigration

Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol

The UK has recently seen an increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing politics, alongside a surge in harmful, anti-immigration policies and discourses enacted by incumbent politicians who are often the children or grandchildren of racialised migrants. How can we understand the relationship between these two seemingly incongruous processes? This seminar brings together two papers […]

MMB Film Group: ‘La Permanence’/ ‘On Call’ (Alice Diop, 2016)

The Cinema, Department of Film and Television 5th Floor, Richmond Building, Bristol

Screening and discussion of Alice Diop's documentary film 'La Permanence'/ 'On Call' (2016). In French with English subtitles, 97 mins. Migrants file in and out of a refugee medical centre in the suburbs of Paris. Their suffering has been intensified by their journeys to France, and by the precarity of their daily lives. Within a […]