SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies was established in 2017 at the @SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

📢Our term 2 seminar series is now live:

'Deep Struggles: Memory of Violence, Aftermath of Revolutions and Political Activism in Diaspora'

Join us for what promises to be a great lineup of talks throughout the term.

@Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment

[paolo novak @Terminalias]

first proofs sent back ✅
endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅
notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️

ETA 18 June 2025

@SOAS_CMDS
@SOASDevelopment
@soasdevtrac

https://t.co/gWAb5HOTxk

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

This evening!

Don't miss @Wendy_Pearlman present her inspiring and ever so timely book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the Syrian Diaspora.'

Details below 👇

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

CMDS are delighted to be hosting @Wendy_Pearlman to speak about her wonderful book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voice from the Syrian Diaspora.'

This is not to be missed.

Next Monday, 10 March, MBR201, SOAS.

All welcome.

@Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment

[Wendy Pearlman @Wendy_Pearlman]

If you are in London, please join us for this talk on Monday, March 10th at 5:00 pm!

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

CMDS are delighted to be hosting @Wendy_Pearlman to speak about her wonderful book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voice from the Syrian Diaspora.'

This is not to be missed.

Next Monday, 10 March, MBR201, SOAS.

All welcome.

@Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment

[Alice Rudge @Alice__Rudge]

Looking forward to this @culanth SCA Fridays conversation with @NiksSimpson , Saad Quasem @SOASanthro - alongside the ecological distress collective including Kerry Ryan Chance, Bridget Bradley, and Gerimis Art Project! Friday 11-12 EST, 4pm UK time, or 12am Malaysia time!

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

Our term 2 CMDS seminar series continues with Hassan Ould Moctar who will be presenting his book 'After Border Externalization.'

Today! 5pm in SALT, SOAS.

@Terminalias

[Hassan Ould Moctar @aloueimin]

On 6 February I’ll be in conversation with Adam Hanieh and Paolo Novak in SOAS (in person and online), for a launch event organised by @SOASDevelopment and @SOAS_CMDS. Registration link and further details here:
https://t.co/7GOryjWwG6

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

Join us tomorrow to hear Alice Wilson discuss her fantastic book 'Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman.'

Part of our term 2 seminar series.

5pm, Thursday 30 January, RG01, SOAS.

All welcome.

@Terminalias @SOASanthro

[Aino Korvensyrjä @AinoKorvensyrja]

I’m presenting my dissertation this Saturday, 18th January, in the lecture series ‘Postcolonial Critique, Decolonial Perspectives’ @goetheuni Frankfurt and online, hosted by @encaguti52, at 4 pm CET. DM for Zoom link. https://t.co/z1CPbIB2bj

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

📢 Hassan Ould Moctar (@aloueimin) will present his book "After Border Externalization", exploring the EU's border and migration control operations in the Global South, with a focus on Mauritania.

Join the discussion, chaired by Paolo Novak (@Terminalias), to understand the historical and social dynamics at play.

📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
📅 6 Feb at 5pm GMT

Register here ➡️: https://t.co/gCqXsMiVD7
@BloomsburyBooks

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

Our term 2 seminar series kicks off this Thursday 16 January with @omar_alghazzi from LSE.

He will be speaking about "Anti-Ottoman meta history and gendered imaginaries of sovereignty in Syria."

Join us! 5pm, RG01 in SOAS.

@Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment

[Lorenzo Piccoli @piccoli_lo]

I have created a searchable list of 80+ migration-related movies, offering various perspectives on human movement, identity, and mobility.

What movies would you add?

#Migration
#MigrationStudies
#MigrationStories

https://t.co/k05UzzuTJK

[PositiveNegatives @PosNegOrg]

Our stories have always leapt off the page. Soon, they’ll leap off the wall. ‘Stories of Migration’, the exhibition, launches 16th January @SOAS

#Storiesofmigration #SOAS

[SOAS University of London @SOAS]

📢 SOAS Event 16 Jan

Join us next week @SoasGallery for the ‘Stories of Migration’ launch and the innovative storytelling and artwork from @PosNegOrg - celebrating and amplifying voices that tell the stories of migration.

Find out more
https://t.co/7J8b1BkMfb

[Housmans Bookshop @HousmansBooks]

Paul Gilroy, one of the foremost theorists of race and racism, has very generously donated several hundred books from his university office library. We will be selling these books, priced mostly from £1-5, from the 18th of January onwards. Come find a hidden treasure!

[Annie Webster @annie_webster13]

📢 Updated call for papers!

I'm delighted that we have @FiddianQasmiyeh confirmed as a keynote for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' hosted by
@IASH_Edinburgh 24th June 2025.

CFP below and more details here:
https://t.co/c55G33sOoK

[Gemma Bird 🧡 @gemmakristina]

In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davide_schmid & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex often contradictory relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders.

[SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS]

Join us tomorrow at 5pm to hear @SanaaAlimia discuss Afghan Precarity in Pakistan: From legal exclusion to ethnic cleansing.

Part of our ongoing Homemaking in Fragile Environements seminar series.

RG01, SOAS Main Building. No registration required.

[Sarah El-Kazaz @SarahElKazaz]

Honored to be part of this important seminar series by @SOAS_CMDS this Thursday at 5pm!