Events : Leeds Migration Research Network

PGR Seminar Decolonising Migration Epistemologies – 23 March 2022

Decolonising epistemological and methodological perspectives in Migration Studies: Language, translation and transcription Wednesday 23rd March, 2-4pm UK time, online Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-perspectives-in-migration-studies-language-and-translation-tickets-248577220157 PGR members of the Leeds Migration Research Network (https://mrn.leeds.ac.uk) invite you to a seminar addressing issues of language, translation and transcription as they relate to the politics and...

Book cover and invitation to launch webinar

Book launch webinar “Family Practices in Migration” – 18th June 2021

“Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships” webinar with presentation of the book and guest speaker Prof Eleonore Kofman 18th June 2021, 4-5:30pm (BST) / 17-18:30hrs (CET) This event launches the collection Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships edited by Martha Montero-Sieburth, Rosa Mas Giralt, Noemi Garcia-Arjona...

29 April 2021, 1-3pm Decolonising Forced Migration talk by Lucy Mayblin

Asylum after Empire. Co-organised by Kheira Arrouche and Tesfalem Yemane. More info/registration.

LMRN Events

We will be posting news of upcoming events with the Leeds Migration Research Network shortly

LMRN General Meeting 4th December

LMRN General Meeting Tuesday 4th December 3-4pm Room G.03 Baines Wing The Leeds Migration Research Network is university-wide network of scholars with a shared interest in migration, displacement, mobility, refugees and asylum seekers, ethnicity/race and decoloniality. The network bringing together over 70 members across a range of faculties together...

Autumn event LMRN seminar November 22nd 2018, 3-5pm Baines Wing 2.15

At our Autumn event, we have a programme of three papers on borders, families, care, feminism and decoloniality. Come and join the discussion with old and new members of the Leeds Migration Research Network. Details of the event and the presentation are below: Leeds Migration Research Network seminar November 22nd...

[Event] LMRN’s SPECIAL MIGRATION EVENT @ RC21 – 11/09/2017

The University of Leeds is hosting the annual RC21 International Urban Studies conference on campus next week, Monday to Wednesday 11-13 September 2017. This is the biggest annual gathering of critical urban scholars in human geography, sociology, politics and related disciplines. Around 700 delegates from 50 countries will be on campus attending...

Migrants workplace and community: exploring intersections of race class and gender – 06/09/2017

Everyone is welcome to come along to this free seminar: please reserve your place HERE. It is titled ‘Civic and labour engagements as avenues for the integration and social cohesion of migrants: exploring the intersections of race, class and gender and marginalized identities’ This seminar will focus on how identity...

Cfp: (Re)producing Insecurities: University of Sheffield, Friday 29 September 2017

The recent EU referendum campaign and resultant vote for the UK to leave the EU is creating new insecurities for EU citizens within and prospective migrants to the UK. At the same time, the European refugee ‘crisis’ was mobilised as a source of fear, insecurity and threat to the UK...

Sadler Series Seminar – Refugees, Austerity and Class Racism

Speaker: Dr Gholam Khiabany Date: 30th November 2016 Location-Leeds Humanities Research Institute In recent times sections of British press and political establishment have described refugees with reference to ‘toxic waste, human flotsam, an unstoppable flood and a terrorist threat’. Refugees are invariably accused of “seeking a better life, wanting to...