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A new union flag
History & The Arts

A new union flag

...migration, identity and urban change. She works freelance with community groups, NGOs and research organizations producing stories, interactive projects and workshops. Visit her website here. Gil Mualem-Doron is an artist, researcher and a community facilitator. He is the founder of SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon in Brighton. He works in various media including...
Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...
Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...migration from Ireland to America, a story that begins long before the Irish Famine of the 1840s and continues to be written well into the 21st century. [Unknown title] Podcast transcript Articles in this collection When the New World beckoned to the Irish in the eighteenth century, who answered the call? Find out more in... The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to...
What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...migration journey, until I reached Ireland via the Democratic Republic of Congo. I had the experience of dealing with my immigration issues, and we are short on space or time to explore my personal experience. Once I got myself sorted, I joined the rank of refugee/migrant advocates. One of the highlights of my social practices in the UK was chairing a seminar hosted by...
James Berry: Windrush songs
History & The Arts

James Berry: Windrush songs

...migrated to England in the late 1940’s into his writing? James Berry was born in Jamaica in 1924, but moved to England during the wave of immigration from the West Indies led by the Empire Windrush. From a young age Berry had an interest in language, and showed an aptitude for spoken word and through writing soon realised he could explore the world from different...
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...migration is one of the greatest political and social issues of our time. The effects of war, poverty and climate change have led millions of people across the world to flee their homes, in search of a safer, better life elsewhere: 65.6 million people are displaced from home today (UNHCR). Developing countries in fact host 80% of the world’s refugees. Political debate...
Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...migration debates because they were seen as temporary sojourners. Did things change?...International students are a growing part of the global migrant population. In 2017, there were 5.3 million internationally mobile students according to UNESCO. The top two countries of origin are China and India while the top destinations are the USA, Australia and the UK. For long,...
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...migration in the 2010s and in the late 1960s – a moment perhaps best known for the end of Commonwealth free movement and Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech. Following the referendum, our findings have taken on a greater resonance. Britain’s struggle to come to terms with immigration is starting to look like a case of history repeating itself. Both in the 1960s...