Mobilise, Resist, Build Solidarity: We Stand with Migrants
Event details
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Tuesday 11 November 2025 - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 116, Jessop Building, The University of Sheffield, Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
Description
A teach-in/out as part of the day of action to mobilise on these themes:
- A war on migrants is a war on all of us
- Migration is a social good
- We stand with migrants.
This event will offer space to learn, share and grow solidarity. We hope to connect the University of Sheffield staff and students, as well as the Sheffield community, through a full day of events, including Teach-outs, workshops, and documentary screenings.
Preliminary version of the programme (No need to register - just show up):
| Time | Activity/Title | Facilitator |
| 11:00-11:45 | Collage workshop: Messages to deconstruct anti-migration discourses | Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli |
| 12:00-12:45 | Interactive research seminar: The UK's hostile environment and young children | Christina Tatham |
| 1:00-1:45 | Striking women exhibition and talk: Migrant workers' contributions to struggles for workers' rights in the UK | Sundari Anitha |
| 2:00-2:45 | Research talk: Small boats, big contracts: How companies make money from small boat Channel crossings | Lucy Mayblin |
| 3:00-3:45 | Mobilies of unfreedom - unpacking varieties of precarity for migrants working in informal labour | Nabeela Ahmed |
We will also have an 'online' exhibition at the Migration Research Group Webpage.
Join us :)