Americans of Polish descent, Polish immigrants and even a couple of “Poles by choice ” – 30 people told their life stories in a unique project run by the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. The artist photographer Tomek Zerek and researcher Dr Anna Muller spent a few weeks in a place which captivated them both. Hamtramck […]
I, gypsy. The voyages of Jan Yoors. Starting from the 25th of September 2015, the Red Star Line Museum will be holding a photo exhibition in The Shed with a selection of photos and films of the versatile Antwerp-New York artist Jan Yoors. For this exhibition, photographer Koen Broos selected photos of Yoor’s travels with […]
The 46th annual conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) will take place this year at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, from 16 to 19 September. Traditionally analogue archival sources, audio and film recordings have been used to document the heritage of migrant workers and their involvement in the labour movement. […]
Wednesday – Friday, March 16 – 18, 2016 The Nordic Heritage Museum will host an Immigration Conference devoted to the topic of immigration in the Pacific Northwest. With speakers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, the conference will be a collaboration between the Nordic Heritage Museum and several museums, archives, and academic institutions throughout the […]
Upcoming conference “Migration in a historical and contemporary perspective, similarities and differences in perception and reception of immigrants and emigrants” to be held May 19 – 21, 2015, at the Utzon Center, Aalborg. This conference will analyse and discuss the importance of a number of factors found in different migration and integration processes, in different […]