Migration Unboxed
by Migration Mobilities Bristol
Conversations about migration are often inside the box: numbers, causes, effect on the economy, how to prevent it. This podcast unboxes migration. It opens up questions on movement and justice and disrupts conventional thinking to better understand how mobility, in all its forms, is a necessary part of all our lives. Our approach is creative, making connections between different types of movement, going beyond the human and across time. It is also critical, challenging assumptions and prioritising justice, as well as conceptual and research driven (we are academics after all!). We call this ‘The Bristol Approach’ to migration and mobilities. Join Bridget Anderson, Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB), to op
Episodes
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How can 'race' unbox migration?
What are the connections between the politics of race and the politics of migration? In this episode we unbox migration further by acknowledging the integral role played by racial discourses in creating narratives that divide migrant from citizen. MMB's Co-Director, Jo Crow, stands in as our host...
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Rethinking migration: the 'Bristol Approach'
In this bonus episode of 'Migration Unboxed' our host Bridget Anderson talks to four of the authors from her new edited volume Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race (Bristol University Press, 2025). The book takes a radically interdisciplinary approach to migration and...
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The good, the bad and the migrant?
In academia there is a lot of debate about whether immigration controls are inherently unjust. But the focus of everyday conversations about migration and asylum is less on the ethics of borders, and more on the morality of migrants. In this episode our host Bridget Anderson is joined by...
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How do people become 'migrants'?
In this episode we ask, how do people become migrantized, and what does this tell us about both migration and citizenship? Bridget invites guests Janine Dahinden and Manoj Dias-Abey to discuss these questions from their different disciplinary perspectives. As a social anthropologist and professor...
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How does visuality help us understand movement?
Images are crucial to how ideas and feelings about migrants circulate. In this episode, host Bridget Anderson invites her guests Victoria Hattam and Nariman Massoumi to explore how visual representation relates to the politics of migration. They discuss photographs, film scenes and everyday…
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What is 'migration' and why unbox it?
Host Bridget Anderson asks guests Nandita Sharma and Tim Cole what they think of when they hear the word ‘migration’. Humans have always moved so when and why does moving become described as ‘migrating’? What might we miss if we just accept the term ‘migration’ without questioning it? In this...
About this show
Conversations about migration are often inside the box: numbers, causes, effect on the economy, how to prevent it. This podcast unboxes migration. It opens up questions on movement and justice and disrupts conventional thinking to better understand how mobility, in all its forms, is a necessary part of all our lives.
Our approach is creative, making connections between different types of movement, going beyond the human and across time. It is also critical, challenging assumptions and prioritising justice, as well as conceptual and research driven (we are academics after all!). We call this ‘The Bristol Approach’ to migration and mobilities.
Join Bridget Anderson, Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB), to op
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