Migration and Interdisciplinary
Global Studies Research Network (MIGS)
MIGS is an interdisciplinary, cross-sector research network. Our focus is on how individuals and communities shape and are shaped by global connections, changes, and crises, with a view to imagining and realising more hopeful, just futures.
MIGS was launched in 2021 and is located within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. We began with a central focus on migration research but have since expanded our work to engage with broader global issues.
Our key thematic interests are: migration and mobilities; global justice; education and youth; environmental justice; and collaborative and creative methods. We are guided by our ethos, which places collaboration with communities, and the organisations that serve them, at the centre of knowledge production and social innovation, supporting transformative change and meaningful impact.
MIGS AIMS
- To produce critical, methodologically innovative, and policy-relevant research bridging the local and global, past and present, individual and structural.
- To work for social and ecological justice through academic practices that are anti-racist, de-colonial, and sustainable, and that seek to benefit individuals, communities, wider society, and the environment
- To facilitate connections and collaborations, including engaging with practitioners, policy makers, and communities.
- To deliver and advocate for research-informed teaching – through a decolonising lens – at undergraduate and post-graduate (taught and research) levels
- To connect, grow, and amplify migration and global studies scholarship across Manchester Met, including among postgraduate students and early career researchers, and to foster international networks and collaborations
- To contribute to a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion and a global outlook at Manchester Met through engagement with staff and students
Featured Works
Moving Images: Exploring Migration Through Audiovisual Storytelling
Moving Images’ brought together academics, artists, community members, and practitioners to explore the ethics and aesthetics of audiovisual representations of migration.
Engaging global youth* in nature-based activities
This text and audiovisual resource offer ten tips from the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group to make nature-based activities more inclusive for ‘global youth.
Surfacing Zarqa
A British Academy funded project exploring home, heritage and belonging among migrant-background young people in Zarqa, Jordan.