Public talk by Prof David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego jointly hosted by IRIS and POLSIS, University of Birmingham, 2 February, 4-5.30 PM Follow this link to reserve a place We often hear that the world faces an unprecedented crisis of forced displacement. Organizations like the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), International Organization for... Continue Reading →
Cities of Fears, Cities of Hopes: IRiS webinar by Nasar Meer
In this Zoom webinar (registration here) organised by the University of Birmingham's Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) on 21 September, Professor Nasar Meer will explore the need to re-think two coterminous concerns: the rediscovery of the ‘local’ and the city in particular, and an understanding of the experience of displaced migration in Europe. Drawing... Continue Reading →
IRiS International Conference 2018 – Racial Displacements: Peripheries, Camps, Resistance
Led by Dr Giovanni Picker , the next IRiS International Conference takes place on 18 and 19 June 2018. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, and engage conversations about mechanisms, meanings and experiences of various forms of displacement. In 2015 the number of forcibly displaced people across the world was the... Continue Reading →

