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    Last 2 weeks of our fundraising challenge. Less than £1K left to reach our goal – please support us!

  2. Join our panel for Curious Connections... Migration and Mobility and discover the history of migration & London:

  3. New blog for Our new lecturer explores the history of migration in Bristol.

  4. COMPAS is hiring! We're looking for a part-time research coordinator & researcher in migration. Apply by 9 & 12 Dec.

  5. Exciting programme featuring new work by , whose 'Wanderers' was part of our exhibition

  6. Lovely feature on diverse traditions of American – we'd love to hear stories of British Xmas

  7. Intriguing story about the birth of Bollywood & Indian film figures who got their start in Britain, via

  8. From Bhaktapur to the Nepali Embassy via St Paul's churchyard—fascinating in outline but also for its insights into Victorian life/attitudes

  9. P. Cole "The most important right might not be the right to safe passage or sanctuary but to self-determination"

  10. Internal migration generally accepted - can we frame external migration in a similar way? Question from Matthew Gibney

  11. Philip Cole: by some sleight we have created a discourse where the refugee is seen as the danger not the person in danger.

  12. Philip Cole: migrants seen as problem by and to the nation state. We need to see 'the citizen' as the problem for refugees

  13. Flip the q of migration: refugees are not the problem, it's the citizen of the state that's the 'problem' -Phillip Cole

  14. 'Migration development' discourse led to framing migration in economic terms w/o talk of individuals, rights -

  15. OU's Tendayi Bloom: Crisis='a time of intense difficulty' has lasted a long 'time', as many as 50m migrants currently.

  16. When talking abt migration, facts/data are not enough, how do we engage with emotion? asks Bridget Anderson

  17. starting w a presentation of challenging questions from Bridget Anderson of and Phillip Cole

  18. Migration Museum followed , and
  19. Pictured here: Junga Bahadur Rana, 1st Nepali prime minister to visit Great Britain – but not the first Nepali to do so. More on our blog

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