Melissa Williams

Research

We are Here to Stay Inna Inglan: Britain’s Immigration Regime, Contingent Status and Belonging Amongst Windrush Descendants of Jamaican Heritage

2023- Panellist- Windrush Voices: Building an Oral History. (Voices of Windrush Festival).
2023- Presentation- The Windrush Scandal, Descendants and ‘Un-Belonging’ In Britain (Black History Conversations).
2022- Presentation - The Role of Post-2012 Immigration Legislation in the ‘Un-Homing’ of Windrush Descendants in Britain (Windrush Parliamentary Lobbying Event).
2022- Panellist- Windrush Lessons not Learned: The Ongoing Impact Hostile Environment for Racially Minoritised People in Britain. (Leigh Day, Lessons not Learned Event).
2022- Panellist- In Conversation with Joseph Gascoigne, Possibilities of Hope: Politics, Citizenship and Social Change. (York Hope Symposium Seminar Series).
2021- Panellist - ‘Uplift’- Righting the wrongs of the Hostile Environment for the Windrush Generation. (Uplift Public Viewing).
2021- Panellist - Horizons of Hope. (York Festival of Ideas).

Williams, M. (2023). The Coloniality of Belonging: To what extent has post-2000 British immigration legislation developed to conditionalise the belonging of Descendants of the Windrush Generation? (University of the West Indies and University of Leicester Summer School).
Parker, S. Williams, M. (2022) The Politics of Hope: Perspectives from London. (Political Studies Association)
Williams, M. (2022). Un-homed: How has the Hostile Environment Immigration Policy Worked to Marginalise British-Born Windrush Descendants? (Political Studies Association).

GTA - Semester 1 (2023) Global Challenges, Department of Politics and International Relations
Co-lead- Liverpool Field trip(2023) Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre