MRG Semester 2: seminar series 2020/21
Migration Research Group
Seminar Series 2020/21
Semester 2
Thursdays 12.00-13.15
Seminars will be held online via Blackboard Collaborate and are open to all. Information will be circulated closer to each event. A full audio recording of each seminar will be added to this page directly after the event.
18.02.21 ‘Key challenges for migrants and migration governance in post-Brexit Britain?’
During this first seminar, we will hear from members of the MRG, working across four different departments at the University of Sheffield.
Julie Walsh & Asma Khan, Department of Sociological Studies
Sally Cawood, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Jamie Coates, School of East Asian Studies
Aneta Piekut, Sheffield Methods Institute
Chair: Majella Kilkey, MRG Co-Director
Registration and further details of this seminar can be accessed here.
Listen to a full recording of the seminar here.
18.03.21 “Boundaries of Europeanness: ‘race-migration nexus’ in Poland’
Bolaji Balogun, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Discussant: Lukasz Szulc, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
Registration and further details on the seminar can be accessed here.
Listen to the full recording of the seminar here.
22.04.21 ‘Deportation for integration? How the integration paradigm is used to justify deportations’
Sophie Hinger, University of Osnabruck
Reinhard Schweiter, University of Vienna
Discussant: Jean-Michel Lafleur, University of Liege
Registration and further details on the seminar can be accessed here.
Listen to the full recording of the seminar here.
13.05.21 Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK
Rebecca Murray, University of Sheffield
Louise Waite, University of Leeds
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds
Hannah Lewis, University Sheffield
Registration and further details on the seminar can be accessed here.
Listen to the full recording of the seminar here.
17.06.21 “If you want to go far, go together” (African Proverb): Doing inclusive research and practice with young people and migrant communities
Thea Shahrokh, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Majella Kilkey, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Hannah Lewis, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Ryan Powell, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
Registration and further details on the seminar can be accessed here.
If you have any questions or require any further information, please contact: migrationresearch@sheffield.ac.uk