Transformational Oak Foundation Gift Creates Research Hub

This is a photo of refugees protesting at Victoria Square in Athens after the borders to the north of Greece were closed in February 2016. It was taken by Sumita Shah (Athens Volunteers Information and Co-ordination Group). Goldsmiths has secured a landmark £11.2 million grant from Oak Foundation to establish the Migrant Futures Institute (MFI) — a bold new initiative dedicated to reimagining migration through the lenses of arts, humanities, and lived experience. [...] The Migrant Futures Institute will be a research institute like no other — grounded in the deep creative and critical traditions of Goldsmiths, but also radically outward-looking and collaborative. This generous gift from Oak Foundation allows us to build something visionary and enduring — a space for new ideas, new solidarities, and new generations of socially engaged research and education. [...] Drawing upon Goldsmiths' rich legacy of academic excellence, creativity and commitment to social justice, the MFI will serve as a dynamic space for critical inquiry and collaboration.  Our unique approach of working directly with migrants and refugees, as well as our UK and international partners will allow us to co-produce new knowledge and opportunities, challenge ways of thinking that create division and hostility, and help generate more hopeful futures for people who move, as well as the