#PRIMEprojectEU launches its debut 🎧episode!!

Principal Investigators Martin Ruhs & MMB Director Bridget Anderson discuss why this project is important, the challenges during the first year & what they are most looking forward to. Listen here:
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#PRIMEprojectEU launches its debut 🎧episode

Principal Investigators Martin Ruhs & Bridget Anderson MigrationMobilitiesUoB discuss why this project is important, the challenges during year 1 & what they are most looking forward to.

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A tragedy occured on the French coast yesterday when five people, including a 7 year old child, died in a small boat. The context that you need to understand it is in this report alarmphone.org/en/2024/01/28/… #channel

👇Read the Disability and Migration Network's response to the Rwanda Bill:

'The rights of Disabled people and migrants are not separate issues.'

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BDASC 🧡 DPAC JCWI Migrants Organise MigrationMobilitiesUoB National Survivor User Network RAPAR
Rebecca Yeo

Imagine being separated from those you love because you don't earn enough. The new MIR is unjust, exclusionary and without a rational basis. Please sign if you haven't already and please spread the word.

Another quick 🧵. The Illegal Migration Act is bad for three reasons. One is practical: it won’t work on its own terms, as I explain in the thread below.

'Navigating ethical emotions in European migration enforcement' - ioana vrabiescu and Bridget Anderson introduce their co-edited Special Issue of Identities Journal in the MMB blog. How do emotions enable enforcers to make or dispute the ethical sense of their activities?tinyurl.com/4ky8pt69

'Music, memory and the making of futures' - Simon Palominos writes in the MMB blog about how Chileans in the UK have used the arts to bring together community and make identities during their exile in the UK Quimantu, Department of HiPLA : tinyurl.com/23rumt68

Looking forward to discussing my book with Sonia Roncador, Maria Julia Rossi and Geoffrey Kantaris on 9 May at 17:30 UK time (BST). Register at the link to join us: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/paid-ca… CLACS ILCS University of Texas Press CAP Academic Books

Attended this week a screening of fly-on-wall documentary of a Parisian clinic for migrants - La Permanence directed by Alice Diop youtube.com/watch?v=EeTo-C…. The film successfully divided opinion with our mixed audience. Raw, powerful, instructive ... MigrationMobilitiesUoB

'(Im)mobility in Buenos Aires - 1929-2023' - in the MMB blog Jo Crow reflects on the first Latin American Communist Party conference, border crossings and open research practices in the Argentine capital Gimena del Rio Riande, zimmer, Department of HiPLA :
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The Minimum Income Requirement to bring a non-British partner to the UK is going up, dramatically. In the MMB blog Katharine Charsley and Helena Wray highlight the devastating impact this will have on yet more families: tinyurl.com/bdddhjr3

Putting the finishing touches on the final episode of the Who do we think we are? Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit podcast collaboration - so chuffed that Ida Danewid came on to talk about her book, including the most amazing and usable explanation of racial capitalism, migration and borders.

New article, 'Gaming Race in Brazil: Video Games and Algorithmic Racism', published today with the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies).
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What are the legal rights of irregular migrants across different European countries? Take a look at our new #PRIMEprojectEU blog post ⬇️

Outlines the approach PRIME will take to measuring (and comparing) the rights of irregular migrants in national laws and regulations

'Invisible: domestic workers' commutes in Latin America' - read about the long, expensive, often dangerous journeys domestic workers take to work each day - MMB blogpost from Rachel Randall and Valentina Montoya Robledo, with film screening to follow: tinyurl.com/dr3muh73

My book, Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture, is officially out today with University of Texas Press 🎉📚 Here’s a Q&A I’ve answered about it for more info: utpress.utexas.edu/blog/2024/01/2…

Connecting migration and mobilities research with social justice organisations - MMB Director Bridget Anderson introduces the new year with a blog about the role of academia in steering policy back towards a more just world, ACH 🧡 UoBris PolicyStudies:
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'Looking for the 'state' in statelessness research' - Natalie Brinham writes in the MMB blog citizenship, statelessness, digital ID systems and abuses of state power, with a focus on the experience of the Rohingya:
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