BRIDGES will bring together representatives of European, national and regional institutions; entities dedicated to the reception of migrants; and academic researchers to discuss the impact of migration narratives in border contexts, at a seminar organised by CIDOB with the collaboration of Casa África. In the afternoon, an open event will take place on the border as a space of inequality and the route towards the Canary Islands.

Discover the artistic work produced by the winners of the ‘BRIDGES Hip-Hop Contest: Challenging migration narratives’, the rap singer Fly So High and the muralist Teo Vázquez

📅 7 February 2024. 09h – 19h📍 Sciences Po, 1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris Listen to the recordings of the sessions and watch the videos below: The discussions surrounding the immigration bill have revealed and reinforced the strong polarisation of the public debate on migration issues in France, which can also be seen in […]

‘Out of Frame: Rethinking the visual narratives of migrations in Europe’, curated by ZONA as part of BRIDGES co-production efforts, will have its final stop at Géopolis, Brussels. The opening will take place on Thursday 1 February, at 18:30h, after the BRIDGES Final Conference.

On 19 January, the Centre for European and Comparative Studies, in partnership with the Désinfox-Migrations association and the Centre for International Relations Studies, will be holding a round-table discussion entitled: “Telling the story of migration at the Italian, French and English borders”.

The BRIDGES Final Conference will take place in Brussels on 1 February 2024. The whole-day event will be an opportunity to discuss the main findings of the project, to exchange with other research projects working on the same topic and to bridge the gap between research and policy-making by opening a discussion with members of the European Parliament. 

‘Out of Frame: Rethinking the visual narratives of migrations in Europe’, curated by ZONA as part of BRIDGES co-production efforts, will open on December 19 in Galería Nueva, Madrid. The opening will take place on Tuesday, December 19, at 18:30pm in Galería Nueva, where the exhibition will be on display until Saturday 20, January 2024. 

In this new edition of the series of conferences “What is going on in the world?” organised by CIDOB, we reflected on the capacity of photojournalism to transform the dominant narratives on migrations with photojournalists Anna Surinyach and Edu Ponces, in a conversation with BRIDGES coordinator Blanca Garcés. 

On 7 October, BRIDGES had the pleasure to participate at the Calentura Pura festival, an international hip-hop festival organised by Voces Globales and Fundación Contorno Urbano.   Berta Güell, BRIDGES researcher, and Raquel Delgado, from the non-profit organisation Hip Hop Works and member of Contorno Urbano, presented the BRIDGES project and its co-production efforts to transform […]

In this new edition of the “What is going on in the world?” cycle of conferences organised by CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), we will reflect on the importance of turning our gaze and making the “other” part of the “us”. All of this from a broad perspective that goes beyond the instantaneousness of the media; that includes a critical view and the subjectivity of those who experience it first-hand; and that can include from the smallest thing to the largest.