Conference: (Re)Mapping Mobility: Migration, Thresholds, and the Politics of (Dis)Placement
Event description
Annual Conference
Migration and Mobilities Research Network at Edinburgh Napier University
(Re)Mapping Mobility: Migration, Thresholds, and the Politics of (Dis)Placement
19 June 2025 (as part of Refugee Week)
Location: Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT
Keynote Speaker: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of Bristol
Keynote Address: Moving Through the Thresholds of the Human: Migrants, Exiles, Slaves, and Criminals
The conference will also include a screening of two documentaries, presented by one of the filmmakers:
Voices from Ipswich: A participatory documentary film where a group of teenagers and young men from Africa explore what it is like to arrive and settle as a refugee in the United Kingdom
Car Wash: A short film exploring how government policies in the UK, particularly the denial of the right to work for people seeking asylum, create conditions that leave them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, pushing them into ‘modern slavery’.
Conference programme will be available on www.migrationmobilities.com in mid-May.
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