by GDI | Nov 6, 2025 | Comment
by Louisa Hann In these times of economic and geopolitical upheaval, global development issues have been making frequent headlines. In recent months, for example, we’ve seen the controversial opening of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (an infrastructural project...
by GDI | Oct 22, 2025 | News
Amidst an atmosphere of increasing hostility towards migrants in the UK, the Global Development Institute’s Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group will be hosting a teach in/out to tackle misconceptions about migration and underline its role as a social good....
by GDI | Jul 28, 2025 | Comment
by Tanja Bastia, Erika Busse, Verónica Montes, and Andrea Souto Garcia At the 25th IMISCOE conference, the largest migration conference in Europe, recently held in Paris, we (the authors) took the opportunity to meet and discuss our respective research experiences,...
by GDI | May 19, 2025 | Comment
by Mahtab Uddin Doctoral Researcher, GDI, the University of Manchester, & Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Dhaka I still remember my first day at Manchester Piccadilly Gardens. The sun was dazzling in the sky, a quite unusual sight in Manchester...
by GDI | May 13, 2025 | Comment
The Migrant Body in South-South Migrations University of Manchester, UK Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th December 2025 As migrants traverse borders, their gendered bodies become sites of agency, struggle and transformation. A critical focus on the migrant body is...
