Migrant Futures Institute

Bringing together researchers, migrant organisers, artists, activists, cultural institutions, and policymakers, MFI creates space for bold thinking, creative collaboration, and transformative action.

MFI is a hub for experimentation, collaboration, and new ideas. We combine pioneering research, creative practice, and grassroots organising to challenge dominant narratives, amplify underrepresented voices, and expand the horizons of what is politically possible.

Through research, public events, cultural partnerships, media engagement, and capacity building, we connect people across disciplines, sectors, and movements to develop fresh responses to the challenges of our time. Rather than seeing migration as a problem to be managed, we treat it as a lens through which to understand and reshape the social, economic, and political forces that shape all our lives.

Migrants are powerful agents of change, and we believe that justice for migrants means justice for everyone. By placing imagination at the heart of social change, MFI is helping to create a future in which everyone is free to move, free to stay, and able to thrive.

The photo at the top of our pages

This is a photo of a refugees protest at Victoria Square in Athens after borders to the north of Greece were closed in February 2016. It was taken by Sumita Shah (Athens Volunteers Information and Co-ordination Group).