Migrant activism and lived experience panel

As part of Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network's Global Teach-In/Teach-Out, the Borders Race Ethnicity and Migration Network at Warwick are running two events on 11th November 2025 in S0.20, Social Sciences.

Join us for Activism and Lived Experience, a powerful conversation bringing together activists and academics to explore how lived experience shapes resistance, research, and solidarity. The panel will feature Mohamad Alobeid,sharing his work with CRMC and insights into the local impacts of violent migration policies; Philippa Metcalfe, discussing distress situations at sea, the criminalisation of solidarity, and the growing dangers of Europe’s border regimes; and Alethia Fernandez de la Reguera, reflecting on how to carry out meaningful, non-extractive activist research in contexts marked by deep power inequalities.

During the panel, participants will be invited to join small-group discussions to reflect on their own engagement with these issues, share experiences, and imagine ethical ways to act and research in solidarity.

This event will be preceded by a half-hour snack break after our first panel: Migration Myth-busting which will run 1-2:30pm in the same room. We would love it if you joined for one or both events.