Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement

We are an agenda-setting research centre leading national and international discussions on migration, based at Aston University.

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

We look forward to welcoming @jessicajlee to Birmingham next week! Join us & @KHAction for a discussion of Jessica's excellent book, exploring the entanglements of human and plant worlds.

🗓️15 May, 18:00
🎟️Tickets https://t.co/2ail3pfB1q
📍The Heath Bookshop

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

Join us for our next event as we screen two short films, followed by a discussion with the director.
📍BRIG, Digbeth, Birmingham
🎫Ticket info https://t.co/PVipCr2alo

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

We are humbled to receive such a gift. Thank you for honouring our work & vision of a community committed to supporting people who are on the move. Our gratitude goes to @AstonAlumni & @Christiane_No18 for supporting @CMFD's longterm goals. #ItTakesAVillage

[Aston University PR @AstonPress]

🙌| @AstonUniversity’s Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement receives £200,000 endowed gift

🔎 The donation will support the @CMFD_Aston’s critical research and advocacy work

👉https://t.co/mpJ3eAugni

#TeamAston

[Salahcialism @Salahcialist]

1/5 This article in Geopolitics by my co-authors @ThomDavies and @J_Obradovic_W delves into the way in which the deliverance of injury is used in a myriad of ways to immobilise and repel migrants along the Balkan route:
https://t.co/EyYEdqWkjt

[Gemma Bird 🧡 @gemmakristina]

Heading down to Bristol for this today with @J_Obradovic_W. We had the absolute honour of sharing our research on borders and bordering with the Paperbirds team and of seeing some of the rehearsals, can’t wait to see the final piece today in a theatre!

[Sally Hayden @sallyhayd]

& a whole chapter of 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' is focused on Rwanda (chapter 19) - consider reading it if you haven't already: https://t.co/VewN6eKgKB https://t.co/sA7eDtQmhc

[Right to Remain @Right_to_Remain]

Message from @wallsmustfall Organiser: 'We are outside the immigration reporting centre in Manchester. The press are here and asking migrants questions about their immigration histories. We advise you not to give your details, unless you are 100% sure it is safe to do so.’

[Right to Remain @Right_to_Remain]

🚨NEW blog on IMMIGRATION RAIDS🚨 as we navigate Rwanda confusion:

⚡️What's a raid?
⚡️What're your RIGHTS in a raid
⚡️What to do if you SEE a raid
⚡️Key groups

Stay informed, stay vigilant, stand together.

Thank you @AntiRaids @migrants_rights ✊
https://t.co/59Vay2iBIv

[Right to Remain @Right_to_Remain]

📢LEGAL UPDATE - the Rwanda Act and Treaty📢

In response to the Guardian article today announcing the Home Office plan to start detaining people for the Rwanda flight, we've just published this update.

We will add more info as we find out more.

⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://t.co/IsmdWFVlaB

[Gemma Bird 🧡 @gemmakristina]

In our new @JIRD_jour piece ‘Archives of border crossing: Crafting emotional proximity & distance on the walls of Athens’@J_Obradovic_W & I engage with #Athens street art to think through questions of memorialisation, whitewashing, borders & community https://t.co/n4GeB1FO6k

[Thom Davies @ThomDavies]

New article on the strategic use of #injury at EU borders:

"The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border"

Now Open Access in @Geopolitics_Jl, written with @Isakjee and @J_Obradovic_W👇
https://t.co/pHYQmWFklJ 🧵1/

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

📣New Event Alert! 📣 We are co-hosting a concert 16 February at 2 pm. Details👇Music and chat! An excellent half term activity! All welcome!
https://t.co/hleU8oHZCe

@RMCentre @MigrationPandP @RestoreBefriend @ACHintegrates @KHAction @BearwoodAction @bhamcos @BrumSchOfSanc

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

@Aston_PIR @mgsesrcdtp @AstonUniversity @AstonBusiness

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

📢Fully funded @ESRC PhD on refugee creative entrepreneurship, supervised by @AmandaRBeattie & @monderram in collaboration with @celsancfest

🗒️Supporting Refugee Creative Entrepreneurship: Experiences, Barriers & Organisational Assistance

📍@CMFD_Aston
🗓️Apply by 25 Feb

[Thom Davies @ThomDavies]

📢New PhD project about EU #border violence, supervised by @J_Obradovic_W and I with @NoNameKitchen1:

"Reporting #Violence at the Border: Investigative Journalism, Activism and Epistemic Injustice in Narratives on Migration"

Funding: @ESRC
https://t.co/q0CUnTryK5👈#PhDposition

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

@mgsesrcdtp @AstonUniversity @Aston_PIR

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

📢New fully funded PhD opportunity with @J_Obradovic_W, @ThomDavies & @NoNameKitchen1

🗒️Reporting violence at the Border:
Investigative journalism, activism and epistemic injustice in narratives on migration.

📍@CMFD_Aston
🗓️Apply by 5 March

https://t.co/HH0adoWJYz

[Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement @CMFD_Aston]

One of our Co-Directors @AmandaRBeattie will begin a 12 month tenure as Chair of the Rights Thematic Discussion organised by @MigrationPandP. We look forward to being a part of these ongoing conversations and thank @papa_danai for all her work this past year as outgoing Chair.

[Migration Policy and Practice 🧡 @MigrationPandP]

Thanks you to @papa_danai who has been chairing our Rights meetings and stepped down this month. We will continue to meet with our new Chair @AmandaRBeattie and develop responses to support migrant needs, particularly around housing (2/8)

[Lighthouse Reports @LHreports]

The no. of people travelling through the Balkans to claim asylum in Europe hit its highest since 2015 last year – & the route is now more deadly

We've found that a growing number of bodies of those attempting the journey are piling up in morgues or being buried without a trace