She ran all the way to Paris, where, in the 1920s, she found a job as an actor and dancer, and a home. The Migration Museum has been awarded Museum of Sanctuary status in recognition of our work in championing stories of people on the move and putting people with lived experience of seeking sanctuary at the heart of our work. More than 7,000 people trying to reach Italy have died in the central Mediterranean since 2014, making the Italian route to Europe one of the deadliest in the world.

Episode 4: Emigration and Enslavement The 17th century colonisation of North America and the Caribbean by emigrants from the British Isles was, almost from its beginning, dependent on the brutal forced transatlantic migration of millions of enslaved African people. Our national touring exhibition opens in Lewisham on 7 March 2024, shining a light on the stories and experiences of people who have come to Britain to work in the NHS over the past 75 years through photography, film, oral histories and an immersive experience that brings together singing and storytelling.He studied History at Cambridge University and Politics at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, before joining the BBC in 1986, for which he has worked, on and off, ever since. After a 10-year journey, the Migration Museum is delighted to announce that it has been given the green light for a permanent home in the City of London. The story is powerfully told, each illustration showing the migrants accepting each other and working together to try to survive and reach safety, highlighting the irrelevance of difference as they work for a common goal.

But in a book which wishes to argue that human mobility is a virtue and a purpose in itself, the absence of the Roma, Sinti and other itinerant peoples is surprising. But overall, the more personal sections are among the most successful and powerfully argued in the book. History books have, on the whole, been written by the sedentary for the sedentary,” says Miller, and naturally reflect a settled people’s chauvinism. To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. But many children welcome opportunities to talk about things that matter, and do so with unexpected insight…There’s a timeless sense of significance about these otherworldly spreads.A unique archive of photographs which records the changing face of a British industrial city through the 20th century is now being brought to a national audience in a BBC documentary, as Tim Smith, long-term friend and supporter of the Migration Museum, recounts.

Alone of the peoples of the ancient Aegean, wrote Plato, the children of Athens could claim to be autochthonous, earth-born, living always in one place, ‘truly dwelling in the land’.Lloyd and George’s wide-ranging conversation explores Lloyd’s business and philanthropic career, his family roots and Jewish identity, the essence of entrepreneurialism and whether one ever stops being a ‘migrant’.