The Home Office's latest measures on international student recruitment raise questions that go beyond immigration policy. Under new rules, universities will be judged against stricter visa refusal, enrollment and course completion targets. While presented as a response to "visa abuse", these measures also extend the role of immigration compliance in shaping how university performance is... Continue Reading →
Guest blog by Leo Wang, PhD researcher, University of Birmingham Shuttles is an independent photography collection dedicated to migrant creators, founded and run by early-career researchers. Shuttles began with something almost accidental. On a whim, we once organised a small photography exhibition – selecting shared themes and placing our works in dialogue with one another around... Continue Reading →
David Stark and Lisa Goodson, IRIS, University of Birmingham A policy turning inwards At the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRIS), we examine migration and superdiversity through empirical research grounded in lived experience. We do this from Birmingham, one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse cities and a place where migration is... Continue Reading →
Thursday 22nd May 2-3:30pm, Muirhead Tower 715 and online (register via Eventbrite). This hybrid roundtable discusses the new book which focuses on one of the most complex and contested social issues of our day: the governance of irregular migrants. The author trace the evolution of state monitoring and control of irregular migrants from the 1960s... Continue Reading →
We are opening this year IRIS seminar series with a talk by professor John Solomos (University of Warwick), discussing linkages and gaps in research on migration and racism. The event is hosted at the University of Birmingham on 29 October, 3-4.30pm (UK). Book a place via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/racism-and-migration-linkages-absences-and-evolving-research-agendas-tickets-1041877251907
International refugees and academic experts have contributed to a new book examining the resonance of Dante’s Divine Comedy with today’s migrants fleeing the troubles in their home countries. Dante on the Move is launched in Rome today (Thursday 11th July) and has been produced as part of a research project Reading Dante with Refugees led... Continue Reading →
https://nandosigona.info/2024/05/10/labours-response-to-irregular-crossings-some-thoughts/?page_id=5433 Drawing on research on post-Brexit migration governance and the irregularisation of migration, Nando Sigona offers some thoughts on Labour's new proposal to tackle irregular sea crossings in the English Channel.
We are delighted to announce the publication of the IRiS anthology to mark the tenth anniversary of the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS). A decade is an important milestone for a research centre. We wanted to take this opportunity to think collectively about past, present and future directions of research on... Continue Reading →
The Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham is inviting abstracts for paper and panel proposals for its 10th anniversary international conference Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 years of research on migration, forced displacement and superdiversity. The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham, 14-16 September 2022.... Continue Reading →
The newest episode of Conversations with IRiS explores transnational political mobilisation by migrant communities. https://youtu.be/aNcnOSX186w Catherine Craven (Research Fellow on the MIGZEN project) speaks to Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Canada), about her recently published book The Ethics of Exile: A Political Theory of Diaspora, which explores the normative and political agency of... Continue Reading →
Conversations with Iris: Podcast on migration, diversity and displacement
The Age of Superdiversity 