News and Events
Explore news, research, and events from UCL Geography’s Migration Research Institute, highlighting seminars, workshops, conferences, and media exploring migration, displacement, and refugee studies.
Featured Recent Events
Watch Refugee Hosts’ Conference Media
November 2019 | Podcasts and videos from the Refugee Hosts' International Conference, Without Exception: The Poetics and Politics of Local Responses to Displacement.
Refugee Hosts’ International Conference 2019
24-25 October 2019 | The Refugee Hosts' International Conference, Without Exception: The Poetics and Politics of Local Responses to Displacement, will take place at UCL on 24-25 October.
Refugee-Related Research and Activities
14 October 2019 | UCL Wide Open Student-Staff Meeting on Initiatives to Support Refugees and Migrants
Past Events
- 26 November 2022: Webinar: Is Migrant Health Racialised?
- 22 November 2022: MRU Reading Group
- 29 September 2022: Seminar: Are single male labour migrants being neglected?
- November 2019: Podcasts and videos from the Refugee Hosts' International Conference, Without Exception: The Poetics and Politics of Local Responses to Displacement, are now available.
- 5 November 2019: We have a new Twitter account - follow us at @UCL_MRU
- 24-25 October 2019: The Refugee Hosts' International Conference, Without Exception: The Poetics and Politics of Local Responses to Displacement, will take place at UCL on 24-25 October.
- 14 October 2019: UCL Wide Open Student-Staff Meeting on Initiatives to Support Refugees and Migrants
- 12 Jun 2019: MRU Graduate Conference: Perspectives on Migration: Conversations on Mental Health and Wellbeing (.pdf)
- 3 Jun 2019: Moving Objects: Stories of Displacement Workshop, UCL Festival of Culture
- 20 May 2019: Launch of the Handbook of South-South Relation
- 10 May 2019: UCL-Yale Workshop on Religion and the Promotion of Social Justice for Refugees
- 19 March 2019: Migration and Society journal launch
- 14 March 2019: Moving Objects Symposium, UCL-Institute of Advanced Studies
- 7 March - 7 October 2019: Moving Objects Exhibition, UCL Octagon Space
- 22 Jan 2019: About a War film screening and panel discussion
- 13 November 2018: Migrant Integration, Education Policies, and Student Outcomes in Western Europe and Beyond, with Louis Volante, Professor of Education at Brock University and an Affiliated
- Researcher at UNU-MERIT. (Joint MRU-IOE Seminar)
- 4 October 2018: MRU Workshop: Performing Migration, MRU Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Tom Bailey
- 31 May 2018: South-South Humanitarianism: New Aims, Old Challenges
- 09 Jun 2017 MRU Student Conference: Between Borders
- 10-15 Mar 2017: RiMW and UCL-IAS hosted an exhibition and symposium (15th March) on Space of Refuge at the P21 Gallery in London.
- 06 Feb 2017: Tom Bailey, UCL Geography Artist in Residence Refugee Theatre Workshop
- June 2016: MRU Student Conference: Moving Beyond Borders: Comparative Reflections on Refuge
- 13 May 2016: Gender, Religion and Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration Workshop
- 12 May 2016: RiMW Conference on Hospitality and Hostility in a Moving World
- 2015-2016: Refuge in a Moving World seminar series
- 2015-2016: Refuge in a Moving World seminar series
- June 2015 MRU Student Conference: Mobile Identities? Perspectives of Gender and Migration
- June 2014 MRU Student Conference: Child & Youth Migrants: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- 2014: Migration and Homes seminar
- June 2012 MRU Student Conference: Migration, Human Rights and Security in Europe (MRU Student Conference 2012 Proceedings)
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