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Its aim is to research the past, shape the present and improve the future by engaging with all possible publics inside and outside academia.

An Aberystwyth interdisciplinary Research Centre which encourages research and engagement on different forms of human mobility from fleeing persecution to travelling for leisure using a wide range of methodological and disciplinary approaches. The Centre for the Movement of People/Canolfan Astudio Symudedd Pobl

Based at Aberystwyth University, the CMOP/CASP encourages research, dissemination and

engagement on different forms of human mobility from fleeing persecution to travelling for leisure using a wide range of methodological and disciplinary approaches. Directed by Dr Andrea Hammel, this research centre operates to further collaborations within the faculty, Aberystwyth University, nationally and internationally. Find us on
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28/04/2026

Great panel discussion today on Transforming the public narrative on refugees and migrants

20/04/2026

The Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University is delighted to invite you to a panel discussion on

'Transforming the public narrative on refugees and migrants' on 28 April 2026 from 17.00 to 18.15 in the Round Studio of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Panellists include Sidra Rahimy and Hefin Rhys Jones (Welsh Refugee Council), Arddun Arwyn (History), Morris Brodie (CMOP), Moira Vincentelli (Aberaid) and others. The event is taking place alongside the Shaping Nations Community Arts exhibition organised by the Welsh Refugee Council and funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund. All welcome.

11/03/2026

Dr Morris Brodie and Professor Andrea Hammel Hammel contributed the panels on Welsh migration history to Welsh Refugee Council's Shaping Nations Exhibition at the National Waterfront Museum Swansea. Lots of community art, well worth a visit.

13/11/2025

Yesterday we opened the exhibition 'Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales' in the Senedd in Cardiff with the Speaker Elin Jones MS and Culture Minister Jack Sargeant addressing the guests.

27/10/2025

The Centre for the Movement of people would like to invite you to the launch of our newest exhibition at the Senedd on 11 November

13/06/2025

New exhibition 'Unsettled Lives' launches tomorrow at 16.30 in Gallery 2 of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

08/06/2025

Next Saturday, 14 June at 16.30, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. ALL Welcome!

30/08/2024

We are pleased to invite you to the conference ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Narrating Stories of Child Evacuees and Refugees, Rethinking Reception Policies and Practices’. This two-day conference explores past and present experiences of child evacuees around the world. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners with an interest in the migration of children and young people, aiming to identify similarities and parallels among the schemes, in order to develop new strategies towards current migratory flows.

The conference will take place at the Dialogue Centre on the 19th and 20th September 2024.

On the 19th, we are pleased to welcome Jill Rutter, with her talk ‘Child refugees: past, present and future’. This talk will take place at the Dialogue Centre from 7 to 8pm.

For further details, please email [email protected].

The event is on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yesterday-today-tomorrow-narrating-stories-of-child-evacuees-and-refugee-tickets-1002883981987?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1j3topo*_up*MQ..*_ga*NDgzNjk3MTYwLjE3MjUwMDIzNTk.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTcyNTAwMjM1OS4xLjAuMTcyNTAwMjM1OS4wLjAuMA

29/04/2024

We are pleased to invite you to our next talk, which will take place on Teams on the 9th May, from 6 to 7pm. Dr Tatiana Morais will talk about Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Targeting Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women: Examining Emerging Legal Tensions. Drawing from fieldwork in Greece (August-October 2017) and in Israel (October 2018-July 2019), with forty-four participants (refugee, asylum-seeking women, and key informants), this talk will focus on tensions emerging from both datasets which exacerbate the risk for refugee and asylum-seeking women to become survivors or victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. Tensions identified in both datasets emphasise the discrepancy between the legal principle to protect refugees and asylum seekers and the reality that showcases multi-layered and "poly-hierarchical" formal and informal power dynamics (Krause, 2018: 499).

If interested, please email [email protected].

18/01/2024

The Centre for the Movement of People has organised a Holocaust Memorial Day Event. We will be showing the film 'Refugees from National Socialism in Wales', followed by a talk about Kate-Bosse Griffiths, a German-Jewish refugee, who became a Welsh-language author and activist.

The event will take place on the 26th January, from 1.30 to 2.30pm, in C22, Hugh Owen Building.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

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