288 search results

Ever Wondered About... Pizza?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Pizza?

...migrated to America with Italian workers in the second half of the 19th century. The first real pizzeria opened in 1905 in New York City, but the real demand for pizza was sparked by GIs returning from Italy after World War II. Science The Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana or ‘The Association of True Neapolitan Pizza’ maintains strict guidelines its members must...
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...migration? Can one be at home whilst on the move? Milton Keynes is a relatively new settlement, created in 1967 as part of the third wave of ‘new towns’ that were established in the UK following the New Towns Act 1946 to house overspill from the post-war growth of larger cities. It is a place of migration and settlement. Milton Keynes is currently home to over quarter...
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...migration. The imagined world of Coronation Street supplies resources for reimagining the everyday spaces that the show’s viewers occupy. As the fictional lives of the characters on Coronation Street unfold, the soap is a space where contesting views and perspectives are aired, inviting the audience into on-going political contestation as part of their ordinary...
Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...migration of people that led to the rapid growth of Glasgow and the surrounding towns that make-up central Clydeside. From a relatively small town in 1800, by the end of the 1800s Glasgow was a key location in the ‘workshop of the world’, with Clyde-built ships, locomotives and engineering products being exported across the Empire and to places and countries beyond....
Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...migration from the former colonial states into the UK, alongside the implementation of a series of restrictive measures (which has since included virginity testing, x-ray screening of minors and the increased imprisonment of illegalised, mostly non-white migrants). It was during this period that the Conservative government contracted Securicor – which later merged with...
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...migration and asylum. Following the success of the Tate Exchange project and the interest generated by Nele’s installation, Nele and her design partner at Goller&Vos, Alexander Goller, began collaborating with Agnes Czajka and the Open University (OU) to develop an interactive, e-learning module designed to explore some of the inequalities inherent in access to...
A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...migration in the nineteenth century (Diner, 1984, p.31). This was unusual in comparison with other European groups where men predominated. Many Irish women found work as domestics catering to America’s growing middle class. Indeed ‘Bridget’, often portrayed in cartoons as inept and ‘manly’, became a typical stereotype of an Irish domestic servant in American...
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...migration, but also through that journey of law, how does the subject become a ‘rights bearing person’ or a ‘rights claiming person’? There are really interesting questions around citizenship and how that relates to crossing borders. What made you think of Rotherhithe? Alia: Well it’s the nearest tunnel to my house. I had travelled through the Rotherhithe and...