SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies @SOAS_CMDS
The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies was established in 2017 at the @SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology. soas.ac.uk/about/research… London, UK Joined January 2024-
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first proofs sent back ✅ endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅ notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️ ETA 18 June 2025 @SOAS_CMDS @SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of-r…
This evening! Don't miss @Wendy_Pearlman present her inspiring and ever so timely book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the Syrian Diaspora.' Details below 👇
This evening! Don't miss @Wendy_Pearlman present her inspiring and ever so timely book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the Syrian Diaspora.' Details below 👇
If you are in London, please join us for this talk on Monday, March 10th at 5:00 pm!
If you are in London, please join us for this talk on Monday, March 10th at 5:00 pm!
CMDS are delighted to be hosting @Wendy_Pearlman to speak about her wonderful book 'The Home I Worked to Make: Voice from the Syrian Diaspora.' This is not to be missed. Next Monday, 10 March, MBR201, SOAS. All welcome. @Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment
Looking forward to this @culanth SCA Fridays conversation with @NiksSimpson , Saad Quasem @SOASanthro - alongside the ecological distress collective including Kerry Ryan Chance, Bridget Bradley, and Gerimis Art Project! Friday 11-12 EST, 4pm UK time, or 12am Malaysia time!
Our term 2 CMDS seminar series continues with Hassan Ould Moctar who will be presenting his book 'After Border Externalization.' Today! 5pm in SALT, SOAS. @Terminalias
Our term 2 CMDS seminar series continues with Hassan Ould Moctar who will be presenting his book 'After Border Externalization.' Today! 5pm in SALT, SOAS. @Terminalias
Join us tomorrow to hear Alice Wilson discuss her fantastic book 'Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman.' Part of our term 2 seminar series. 5pm, Thursday 30 January, RG01, SOAS. All welcome. @Terminalias @SOASanthro
I’m presenting my dissertation this Saturday, 18th January, in the lecture series ‘Postcolonial Critique, Decolonial Perspectives’ @goetheuni Frankfurt and online, hosted by @encaguti52, at 4 pm CET. DM for Zoom link. fg-dekolonial.com/event/postcolo…
📢 Hassan Ould Moctar (@aloueimin) will present his book "After Border Externalization", exploring the EU's border and migration control operations in the Global South, with a focus on Mauritania. Join the discussion, chaired by Paolo Novak (@Terminalias), to understand the…
Our term 2 seminar series kicks off this Thursday 16 January with @omar_alghazzi from LSE. He will be speaking about "Anti-Ottoman meta history and gendered imaginaries of sovereignty in Syria." Join us! 5pm, RG01 in SOAS. @Terminalias @SOASanthro @SOASDevelopment
I have created a searchable list of 80+ migration-related movies, offering various perspectives on human movement, identity, and mobility. What movies would you add? #Migration #MigrationStudies #MigrationStories datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aiSfx/6/
Our stories have always leapt off the page. Soon, they’ll leap off the wall. ‘Stories of Migration’, the exhibition, launches 16th January @SOAS #Storiesofmigration #SOAS
📢 SOAS Event 16 Jan Join us next week @SoasGallery for the ‘Stories of Migration’ launch and the innovative storytelling and artwork from @PosNegOrg - celebrating and amplifying voices that tell the stories of migration. Find out more bit.ly/3PpDBvb
Paul Gilroy, one of the foremost theorists of race and racism, has very generously donated several hundred books from his university office library. We will be selling these books, priced mostly from £1-5, from the 18th of January onwards. Come find a hidden treasure!
📢 Updated call for papers! I'm delighted that we have @FiddianQasmiyeh confirmed as a keynote for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' hosted by @IASH_Edinburgh 24th June 2025. CFP below and more details here: iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pape…
In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davide_schmid & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex often contradictory relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders.
Fantastic piece written by one of my favourite people, Dr Iris Lim: AI was supposed to make the UK benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger. theconversation.com/ai-was-suppose… via @ConversationUK
Join us tomorrow at 5pm to hear @SanaaAlimia discuss Afghan Precarity in Pakistan: From legal exclusion to ethnic cleansing. Part of our ongoing Homemaking in Fragile Environements seminar series. RG01, SOAS Main Building. No registration required.
Honored to be part of this important seminar series by @SOAS_CMDS this Thursday at 5pm!
Honored to be part of this important seminar series by @SOAS_CMDS this Thursday at 5pm!
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