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MRG PGR Conference 2025 organising team
MRG 2025 Conference organising team: Said Zaaneen, Amelia (Millie) Hind, Andrew Hughes, Ella Monkcom, Sarah Hill, Yifan Bao.

MRG PGR Conference 2025

Celebrating success of our international PGR conference on reimagining migration
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New Publication by MRG Member Nikola Lero

The article explores the power and complexity of poetry workshops in migration research
Dr Rafał Soborski and Dr Anna Jochymek during workshop discussion.
Dr Rafał Soborski and Dr Anna Jochymek during workshop discussion.

Ethics of studying far-right and anti-immigration groups

Post-workshop reflections from MRG community
Doodle prepared on the basis of workshop discussion: Friends of Windrush Square neighbourhood plan
Produced by the graphic facilitator and cartoonist Pen Mendonça as part of the neighbourhood forum workshops. See here for more of Pen's work: https://www.penmendonca.com/

Reclaiming Windrush Square

Brixton community charts future of public space - report from organisers of participatory workshops
Sarli Nana

Reporting from the Yorkshire Solidarity Summit

On Saturday 26th April people gathered at Victoria Hall for the Yorkshire Solidarity Summit.

A small boat crossing the sea, in the background a much larger military or security type vessel can be seen.

New research reveals billions made by companies involved in UK border security

New research from a team of leading UK universities has revealed that over £5 billion in government contracts has been awarded to private companies for managing border security and small boat crossings.
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H2020: MRG successful in securing a three-year capacity building project with MIGREC
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IMISCOE Spring Conference: Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond

The ‘Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond’ IMISCOE Spring Conference took place on 28-29 March 2019 in Sheffield, UK.
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Panel discussion on migration within, to and from Central and Eastern Europe in the shadow of Brexit

Members of the Migration Research Group at СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield and Centre for Migration Research at СŷÊÓƵ of Warsaw organised a panel on migration and Brexit at the Polish Sociological Association conference, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in Sept
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A Reflection on the Migration and Transformations PhD Research Methods Summer School: 3rd – 7th September 2018

By Maev McDaid and Edanur Yazici
For the last week, young scholars from English and Polish Universities came together in Warsaw with established academics to undertake a programme of masterclasses, walking tours, museum visits and cultural trips.

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Migration-induced social change in Poland

The Second Annual Social Policy and Society Journal Lecture with Professor Izabela Grabowska, SWPS СŷÊÓƵ of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw