Vice – The Refugee Who Smuggled Himself Out of Camps and into ‘Rocket Man’ (23/06/2017)
‘The incredible true story of 31-year-old Majid Adin, an Iranian refugee animator behind a viral music video for one of Elton John’s most classic jams.’
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‘The incredible true story of 31-year-old Majid Adin, an Iranian refugee animator behind a viral music video for one of Elton John’s most classic jams.’
Read‘According to the UN Refugee Agency, more than the entire population of the UK was forcibly displaced at the end of 2016. We are Facebook Live from the Migration Museum Project speaking with Professor Sir Richard Evans on the history of migration.’
Read‘It tells the ‘under-represented story’ of migrants and how they have shaped the British identity.’
Read‘Over Hugenoten, Jamaicanen en Syriërs; een nieuw migratiemuseum in Londen. Nu alleen nog zoeken naar een permanente vestigingsplaats.’
Read‘As migration sits at the centre of current debates concerning Britain’s identity and place in the world, the UK’s first dedicated museum about migration opens its doors.’
ReadLondres, capitale cosmopolite. Pourtant, le projet de “musée des migrations” se cherchait un toit depuis trois ans. Il vient d’investir les murs d’une ancienne caserne de pompiers, dans l’attente d’un emplacement définitif. Les migrations, un thème omniprésent dans l’espace public, que ce nouveau lieu culturel souhaite mettre en perspective, en retraçant l’histoire des immigrés et émigrés qui ont façonné la Grande-Bretagne.
Read‘For all the talk about “immigrants” and “foreigners,” the country has never had a real conversation about the role of migration in shaping Britain. That is set to change with the opening of the Migration Museum in London, a bold new addition to Britain’s cultural landscape that seeks to tell the story of how migration has shaped Britain across the ages.’
Read‘It has been a long time coming, but Britain is finally getting an institution that reflects the heritage of its entire people.’
ReadAn op-ed written by our chair, Barbara Roche: ‘As immigration minister I visited the world’s migration museums and wondered why we had none. Finally we have one, and it couldn’t have come at a more important time.’
ReadBBC South East Today ran a feature on our Migration Museum at The Workshop on its evening bulletin, with a particular focus on our Call Me By My Name exhibition. Click the link below to watch the video.
ReadWith national and international politics both drawing increasing attention to immigration, it’s the perfect time for London to get its own small museum dedicated to migration.
Read‘The ambitious museum brings new perspective to a city shaped by immigrants.’
ReadThe new museum seeks to humanize the way people think about migration in the UK.
ReadThe opening of our Migration Museum at The Workshop featured on Amanpour, CNN International’s flagship global affairs interview program hosted by Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
Read‘A new London museum aims to go beyond the stereotypical views of refugees and migration usually found in the media, says Rosamund Urwin.’
ReadFrom this week London gets a new Migration Museum. It’s starting out in a temporary home but the hope is that within a couple of years it will move to a permanent base. The director is a former immigration judge, who says almost all of us have a migration story somewhere in our family background.
ReadThe project aims to provide context to frenzied political debate.
Read‘The museum will open this month and explore how the movement of people has shaped British history.’
ReadThe Migration Museum Project, an organisation set up to make the case for a permanent migration museum in Britain, has secured an exhibition space in Lambeth, south London.
Read‘The Migration Museum Project recently secured a central London location to use as a pop-up space, but the idea is to build a base in the capital and also partner with other museums across the country, so that its collections themselves would be migratory.’
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