Migration Mobilities Bristol
@mmbuob.bsky.social
Faculty Research Centre @universityofbristol 📚 New thinking on people, movement and social justice 🚀 Blogs, podcasts, conversations. Visit us at https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/
Vigilante bordering in South Africa is recasting public services as checkpoints of belonging. Enocent Nemuramba writes for MMB about the implications for immigrant rights protection as self-appointed vigilantes takes it upon themselves to exclude non-citizens 👉👉https://bit.ly/48XRlru
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Vigilante bordering in South Africa is recasting public services as checkpoints of belonging. Enocent Nemuramba writes for MMB about the implications for immigrant rights protection as self-appointed vigilantes takes it upon themselves to exclude non-citizens 👉👉https://bit.ly/48XRlru
Immigration enforcement has a long and ugly history. We need to completely reframe our thinking. Listen to the MMB podcast, 'Migration Unboxed', to get some ideas on how to think differently. All episodes available here 👉👉 https://bit.ly/4gTc2a8
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Immigration enforcement has a long and ugly history. We need to completely reframe our thinking. Listen to the MMB podcast, 'Migration Unboxed', to get some ideas on how to think differently. All episodes available here 👉👉 https://bit.ly/4gTc2a8
Looking forward to MMB's event this evening on how migration research can help build justice, in solidarity with our colleagues' teach-outs to support migrants across the world!
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Looking forward to MMB's event this evening on how migration research can help build justice, in solidarity with our colleagues' teach-outs to support migrants across the world!
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais is a collaborative visual essay by nine people from MMB and Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster, New York coming out of several field trips to Dover and Calais. https://bit.ly/4nqrgW5
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais is a collaborative visual essay by nine people from MMB and Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster, New York coming out of several field trips to Dover and Calais. https://bit.ly/4nqrgW5
If you're in Bristol tomorrow, come along to hear MMB Director Bridget Anderson at the Philosophy Salon discussing the question 'Do we have a duty to rescue?' with David Edmonds and Julian Baggini. Use code PHIL5 for a 50% discount when booking👉 @stgeorgesbris.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4oJGK8U
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If you're in Bristol tomorrow, come along to hear MMB Director Bridget Anderson at the Philosophy Salon discussing the question 'Do we have a duty to rescue?' with David Edmonds and Julian Baggini. Use code PHIL5 for a 50% discount when booking👉 @stgeorgesbris.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4oJGK8U
'Coping with protracted migration crises: the role of international organizations in the Syrian and Venezuelan displacements' - Çağla Ekin Güner and Ana Margheritis write on this critical issue in this week's MMB blog. Read the post here 👉👉 https://bit.ly/3IZ97ke
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
'Coping with protracted migration crises: the role of international organizations in the Syrian and Venezuelan displacements' - Çağla Ekin Güner and Ana Margheritis write on this critical issue in this week's MMB blog. Read the post here 👉👉 https://bit.ly/3IZ97ke
Migration is in the news every day - the word thrown about as if it's always meant one thing. But should we accept this meaning? In the Migration Unboxed podcast we question the use of the term and examine how it's become tightly bound up with state power. Episode 1 here 👉 https://bit.ly/46CvfZq
September 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Migration is in the news every day - the word thrown about as if it's always meant one thing. But should we accept this meaning? In the Migration Unboxed podcast we question the use of the term and examine how it's become tightly bound up with state power. Episode 1 here 👉 https://bit.ly/46CvfZq
'Citizen geopolitics: understanding the role of migrant naturalisation in the transformations in the Middle East' - Palada Ziss writes in the MMB blog about the need to rethink what citizenship is and does in the 21st century 👉👉 https://bit.ly/46qJKQV
September 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
'Citizen geopolitics: understanding the role of migrant naturalisation in the transformations in the Middle East' - Palada Ziss writes in the MMB blog about the need to rethink what citizenship is and does in the 21st century 👉👉 https://bit.ly/46qJKQV
Five episodes of Migration Unboxed are now available, all disrupting conventional thinking on migration. Here are our guests from Episode 5, discussing the radically interdisciplinary Bristol Approach with host Bridget Anderson! 🎧 Listen to all episodes here👉 https://bit.ly/3J5BFbs
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Five episodes of Migration Unboxed are now available, all disrupting conventional thinking on migration. Here are our guests from Episode 5, discussing the radically interdisciplinary Bristol Approach with host Bridget Anderson! 🎧 Listen to all episodes here👉 https://bit.ly/3J5BFbs
How did rulers in the Middle Ages control who entered and who exited their territories? In 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 @bristoldublin.bsky.social joins colleagues across the disciplines to think through new ways of understanding migration through the ages. Listen to the full episode here 👉👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H
July 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
How did rulers in the Middle Ages control who entered and who exited their territories? In 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 @bristoldublin.bsky.social joins colleagues across the disciplines to think through new ways of understanding migration through the ages. Listen to the full episode here 👉👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H
Lucy Donkin discusses the mobility of people and the portability of place in the latest episode of Migration Unboxed, drawing on her chapter in MMB's edited volume 'Rethinking Migration'.
Download the book for free here 👉 bit.ly/3TtigmE and listen to the full podcast episode here 👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H
Download the book for free here 👉 bit.ly/3TtigmE and listen to the full podcast episode here 👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H
July 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Lucy Donkin discusses the mobility of people and the portability of place in the latest episode of Migration Unboxed, drawing on her chapter in MMB's edited volume 'Rethinking Migration'.
Download the book for free here 👉 bit.ly/3TtigmE and listen to the full podcast episode here 👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H
Download the book for free here 👉 bit.ly/3TtigmE and listen to the full podcast episode here 👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H
'The carceral economies of asylum: who's working the border?' In the MMB blog Eda Yazici opens up the conversation about the working conditions and experiences of those working in the UK immigration system. Read the full post here 👉👉 bit.ly/44sxjDz
July 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
'The carceral economies of asylum: who's working the border?' In the MMB blog Eda Yazici opens up the conversation about the working conditions and experiences of those working in the UK immigration system. Read the full post here 👉👉 bit.ly/44sxjDz
'Music can cross ideological and geographical borders, but it can also help erect borders – nations are fundamentally constructed in sound.’ Florian Scheding highlights the importance of listening and the Arts in migration studies. Listen to the full episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed spoti.fi/3GdPjYT...
June 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
'Music can cross ideological and geographical borders, but it can also help erect borders – nations are fundamentally constructed in sound.’ Florian Scheding highlights the importance of listening and the Arts in migration studies. Listen to the full episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed spoti.fi/3GdPjYT...
Natasha Carver joins co-authors from MMB's edited collection 'Rethinking Migration' to discuss how working across disciplines enabled them to radically rethink categories and assumptions about 'migration'. Listen to the full episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 here 👉👉
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June 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Natasha Carver joins co-authors from MMB's edited collection 'Rethinking Migration' to discuss how working across disciplines enabled them to radically rethink categories and assumptions about 'migration'. Listen to the full episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 here 👉👉
spoti.fi/3GdPjYT
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‘"Find your village": activating migrant heritage community assets' - Tom Allport writes in the MMB blog about his co-produced research and advocacy project aiming to improve early child development, wellbeing and social connectedness for families with migration heritage. 👉👉 bit.ly/45Is83n
June 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
‘"Find your village": activating migrant heritage community assets' - Tom Allport writes in the MMB blog about his co-produced research and advocacy project aiming to improve early child development, wellbeing and social connectedness for families with migration heritage. 👉👉 bit.ly/45Is83n
Listen to the latest episode of The PRIME Project podcast, where Clare Fox Ruhs and Joakim Palme discuss how institutional differences between countries shape responses to irregular migration — and how they conceptualised and measured rights 👉
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June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Listen to the latest episode of The PRIME Project podcast, where Clare Fox Ruhs and Joakim Palme discuss how institutional differences between countries shape responses to irregular migration — and how they conceptualised and measured rights 👉
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ncc...
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The latest episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 discusses the Bristol Approach to migration and mobilities. Bridget Anderson talks to four authors from MMB's new volume 'Rethinking Migration' about working together in a radically interdisciplinary way. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! bit.ly/4f9Mogd
June 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The latest episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 discusses the Bristol Approach to migration and mobilities. Bridget Anderson talks to four authors from MMB's new volume 'Rethinking Migration' about working together in a radically interdisciplinary way. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! bit.ly/4f9Mogd
SIM cards as symbols of connection, visualisation and art - Liz Hingley, MMB's Honorary Artist, writes in our blog about The SIM Project and curating the beautiful new Waymarkers exhibition, bringing together hundreds of different experiences of mobility. Read more about it here 👉 bit.ly/448tdjv
June 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
SIM cards as symbols of connection, visualisation and art - Liz Hingley, MMB's Honorary Artist, writes in our blog about The SIM Project and curating the beautiful new Waymarkers exhibition, bringing together hundreds of different experiences of mobility. Read more about it here 👉 bit.ly/448tdjv
What are the ethical, practical and relational considerations in engaging migrant communities in the research process? @rlutz2013.bsky.social explores the co-production of academic research on migration in light of the new Praxis guide on fair compensation. Read the post here👉👉 bit.ly/43nb5Ce
June 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What are the ethical, practical and relational considerations in engaging migrant communities in the research process? @rlutz2013.bsky.social explores the co-production of academic research on migration in light of the new Praxis guide on fair compensation. Read the post here👉👉 bit.ly/43nb5Ce
Join us for our next webinar with @achintegrates.bsky.social on 11th June. we're discussing policy, politics and NGOs - the complex world where advocacy meets administration and grassroots activism meets policy-driven professionalism. Sign up here 👉👉 bit.ly/3SxaZBW
June 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join us for our next webinar with @achintegrates.bsky.social on 11th June. we're discussing policy, politics and NGOs - the complex world where advocacy meets administration and grassroots activism meets policy-driven professionalism. Sign up here 👉👉 bit.ly/3SxaZBW
In the world of 'green securitisation', bordering of areas protected for wildlife may also mean control of groups deemed 'risky' by the state. In the MMB blog, @naomimillner.bsky.social traces the parallels in the use of new technologies in migration and conservation surveillance 👉 bit.ly/4jdp4iH
May 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In the world of 'green securitisation', bordering of areas protected for wildlife may also mean control of groups deemed 'risky' by the state. In the MMB blog, @naomimillner.bsky.social traces the parallels in the use of new technologies in migration and conservation surveillance 👉 bit.ly/4jdp4iH
A far-right leader promoting pro-immigration policies? It sounds like an anomaly but Maeli Farias shows how Bolsonaro made use of Brazil's progressive immigration framework to advance his own political agenda. Read on in her MMB blogpost on the Bolsonaro paradox 👉👉 bit.ly/4mrn2hQ
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A far-right leader promoting pro-immigration policies? It sounds like an anomaly but Maeli Farias shows how Bolsonaro made use of Brazil's progressive immigration framework to advance his own political agenda. Read on in her MMB blogpost on the Bolsonaro paradox 👉👉 bit.ly/4mrn2hQ
As the UK government presents its plan to 'restore control over the immigration system', now's the time to ask again, how do people become 'migrantised'? Listen to our take on this, with @janinedahinden.bsky.social and @mdiasabey.bsky.social, in the MMB podcast 👉👉 spoti.fi/43gkjAB
May 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
As the UK government presents its plan to 'restore control over the immigration system', now's the time to ask again, how do people become 'migrantised'? Listen to our take on this, with @janinedahinden.bsky.social and @mdiasabey.bsky.social, in the MMB podcast 👉👉 spoti.fi/43gkjAB
For those of you able to come to Bristol do sign up for ‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’, MMB/Anthropology and Archaeology Public Lecture 2025, Weds 21 May, 5:30-7:30 pm, given by Professor Miriam Ticktin - bit.ly/4m0erSO
May 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For those of you able to come to Bristol do sign up for ‘From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise’, MMB/Anthropology and Archaeology Public Lecture 2025, Weds 21 May, 5:30-7:30 pm, given by Professor Miriam Ticktin - bit.ly/4m0erSO
Miriam Ticktin discusses how deservingness has been used as a moral metric to define the most valuable members of society - including those newly arrived. Listen to the full Migration Unboxed episode 'The good, the bad and the migrant?' here, 👉 spoti.fi/4jakFh2 or wherever you get your podcasts!
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Miriam Ticktin discusses how deservingness has been used as a moral metric to define the most valuable members of society - including those newly arrived. Listen to the full Migration Unboxed episode 'The good, the bad and the migrant?' here, 👉 spoti.fi/4jakFh2 or wherever you get your podcasts!