Join us for the first day of our Wold on the Move conference for an afternoon of discussion on ‘Brexit and Migration’

Free entry for University of Manchester students and staff.

For more information visit Migration Lab website: http://www.migrationlab.manchester.ac.uk/

Provisional programme

13.00 – 14.30 Keynotes

Don’t mourn: Organize and theorize dispossession: Thinking beyond Brexit, Trumpism and migration policy speak

Nina Glick-Schiller, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

Migration and diversity in the Brexit vote and the post-Brexit landscape

Robert Ford, Professor of Politics and Government, University of Manchester

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14.30 – 16.00 Plenary Panel: Brexit and Belonging

‘Before Brexit, I intended to live in the UK forever’: Identity and belonging among Eastern European young people post-Brexit

Daniela Sime and Christina McMellon, University of Strathclyde, Naomi Tyrrell and Claire Kelly, University of Plymouth, Marta Moskal, University of Durham

Conviviality before and after Brexit: the case of Polish migrants in the UK

Alina Rzepnikowska, University of Manchester

Caring across borders: transnational families and the implications of Brexit

Majella Kilkey and Louise Ryan, University of Sheffield

Cities of Sanctuary? The ‘Muslim question’ and reformulations of imaginaries of belonging in the context of the Syrian ‘refugee crisis’ and the aftermath of Brexit in the UK

Madeline-Sophie Abbas, University of Manchester

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16.00 – 16.30 Coffee

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16.30 – 17.30 Plenary Discussion: Brexit and migration policy

Panellists: Fizza Qureshi (Migrants Rights Network), Estelle Worthington (Asylum Matters), Cristina Tagolo (3Million), Prof Corrine Squire (University of East London)

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17.30 – 18.00 Book launch

Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures: Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe

Yaron Matras and Daniele Viktor Leggio (Eds.) University of Manchester

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18.00 – 19.00 Drinks reception opened by Prof Fagan