Sheffield Migration Research Group
@sheffieldmrg.bsky.social
Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
Hey Andy Burnham! A new Prime Minister means a chance to choose a different path. For too long, refugees have been used as political scapegoats while hostile rhetoric has divided communities & harmful policies have made it harder for people seeking safety to rebuild their lives.
Join us for this Hybrid Seminar at 1pm (BST) on 30/04 with Dr Simona Sokolovska (University of Deusto). More inof here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
MRG Seminar: Voices in the Light: Life Stories of South Asian Migrant Women in Yorkshire
This presentation examines how South Asian migrant women in Yorkshire narrate migration, belonging and empowerment through memory, storytelling and creative self-expression. Based on life-history inte...
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The final report of our study “Mapping the Humanitarian Visa Policy in Brazil” with @cintranatalia.bsky.social and Svetlana Ruseishvilli is out Conducted throughout 2025, it analyses humanitarian visas policies in Brazil to discuss complementary pathways to protection worldwide. +
HUMANVISA - Final Report
Final Report in English
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Must read from Shahram Khosravi. Defeat as Method: Thinking from within the ruins. migrationscholarsmobilize.org/blog-posts-2...
Migration Scholars Mobilize Network
By Shahram Khosravi Originally published in Cabinet Magazine . 2026. Issue 21 (July) https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/khosravi.php See original article for images that accompany the…
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Fascinating research on FOIs as method, and charter flights as practice, from William Walters and Travis Van Isaker. Recommend. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org
We would like to welcome you all to our next online MRG Seminar with Dr Abida Younas on 28/04/2026 at 1 pm (BST). More information and sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
MRG Seminar - The Ethics of Hospitality under Asylum Governance
Join us for this online MRG seminar -The Ethics of Hospitality under Asylum Governance with Dr Abida Younas. No need to register, just join us online AbstractThis paper argues that contemporary asylu...
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Join us for this very interesting panel co-organised with SYMAAG and other groups on 24/03 - 18h30 at the University of Sheffield Registration and info here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Panel: Understanding Iran Protests: Domestic and International Perspectives
Join us for a panel featuring diverse perspectives on the current protests in Iran. We have assembled experts and people with lived experience and access to diverse information sources from Iran. We w...
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Join us for this very interesting panel co-organised with SYMAAG and other groups on 24/03 - 18h30 at the University of Sheffield Registration and info here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Panel: Understanding Iran Protests: Domestic and International Perspectives
Join us for a panel featuring diverse perspectives on the current protests in Iran. We have assembled experts and people with lived experience and access to diverse information sources from Iran. We w...
sheffield.ac.uk
The MRG Seminar Series is back 🙌 Join us for our in-person MRG Seminar (co-organised with the GLP) with Dr Sara Kunz on 03/03/2026 at the University of Sheffield More info: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
MRG Seminar: Following the expatriate through the archive of (unfinished) decolonisation
Join us for this MRG Seminar, organised in conjunction with the School of Geography & Planning (GPL), in person, with Dr Sarah Kunz (University of Essex). Dr Lucy Mayblin (University of Sheffield, Soc...
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My Special Issue with Nuni Jorgensen on Families on the Move - Latin American Perspectives is out at @scmrjems.bsky.social We have 9 excellent contribution from amazing Latin American colleagues :) You can read more about it here sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...
New Research Challenges Eurocentric Perspectives on Family Migration in Latin America
A new Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies offers a rigorous interrogation of how migrant families navigate complex legal and social landscapes in the Global South.
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Just out: my new research on apostasy and non-religion among asylum seekers in the UK. It explores what it’s like emotionally to leave a religion in countries where it’s dangerous, and seek refuge here. 🧵
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register) Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Political rhetoric isn't just talk, it has real material implications. "UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff
Voluntary organisations forced to introduce extensive security measures to protect staff and property
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I am happy to discuss Environmental Displacement in Latin America with outstanding colleagues Andrea Pacheco Pacífico and Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica on the 06/11/2025 1pm-2pm(GMT) online organised by the @rli-sas.bsky.social More info and registration here : rli.sas.ac.uk/events/displ....
My new co-edited book with the amazing colleagues Andrea Pacheco Pacífico and Thalita Melo Silva is out. With 15 chapters from leading authors in the region, we advance the concept of internal environmental displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the pressing issue of environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Brilliant to have Prof Susan Banki here from the University of Sydney, talking about her work on exile politics!
We stand with our Iranian members who fought for workers rights, Kurdish autonomy and womens rights in #Iran - that's why they were persecuted and forced to become refugees. The Iranian people will liberate Iran not Israeli and US violence with UK support. #NoWaronIran
It’s here! #SmallCharityWeek is live – and for one week only, your donation is DOUBLED. Same contribution. Twice the impact. ✌🏽 Help us reach our £10,000 target = matched to £20,000 🎯 #Donate via the @biggive.bsky.social platform👇🏽 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... Please share and spread the word 📣
🚨 Don’t miss this! Jessi from GRABS will be presenting on temporality and borders — discussing the role of time in border violence, mobility control, and the everyday lives of people on the move. If you're around, stop by and say hi!
Sheffield Migration Research Group@sheffieldmrg.bsky.social · last yr.Join us this Friday 20th June for the 2025 MRG PGR Migration Conference: "Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and identity across time and space | University of Sheffield, 20 June 2025" More details and registration link here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Please join us for this hybrid seminar: Dr Susan Banki, Uni of Sydney The Ecosystem of Exile Politics Thu 26 June, 1130am Univ of Sheffield, in person & online, hosted by @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social+Activism & Social Movements Research Network Register here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: The Importance of Physical Location in Diaspora Mobilisation
Susan Banki’s book, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics, tells the story of a little-known refugee situation. It relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then...
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We @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social are hosting today our international Annual PGR Migration Conference and Annual Lecture with prof. Jenny Phillimore. This year's conference theme is timely "Reimagining migration: Decolonisation and Identity across space and time".
Huge promise for the future of migration studies shown at Sheffield Migration Research Group's 3rd Annual Postgrad Research Conference today. Fascinating embodiment panel spanning feelings in Iranian forced migration; cultural mediators in asylum reception; Chinese-British adoption
Sheffield Migration Research Group@sheffieldmrg.bsky.social · last yr.The 2025 MRG PGR Migration Conference: "Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and identity across time and space” is underway! It’s going to be a great day to celebrate some of the fantastic work being done by PhD students in the field!
Prof Jenny Phillimore delivering our annual lecture. An uplifting end to our year of activities!
The 2025 MRG PGR Migration Conference: "Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and identity across time and space” is underway! It’s going to be a great day to celebrate some of the fantastic work being done by PhD students in the field!
Please join us for the 2025 MRG Annual Lecture this Friday 20th June: Encounters with kindness: everyday and extraordinary kind interventions in the lives of forced migrant survivors of sex and gender based violence, with Professor Jenny Phillimore www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Join us this Friday 20th June for the 2025 MRG PGR Migration Conference: "Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and identity across time and space | University of Sheffield, 20 June 2025" More details and registration link here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Coming up! Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza. Exiled above the arctic circle in Norway and refusing to accept the boundaries imposed by international politics and rigid bureaucracy, Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly tells stories from his hometown Gaza students.sheffield.ac.uk/student-life...
Coming up! Refugee Week film screening of Fremont. A moving and hilarious comedy-drama about Donya, a young Afghan who moved to Fremont, California after serving as a translator for the American armyMore details here: students.sheffield.ac.uk/student-life...
