Byline Times – A Pitched Battle (13/07/2021)
“As the Migration Museum so poignantly pointed out, more than half of the England team wouldn’t be playing in the national team if it wasn’t for immigration.”
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“As the Migration Museum so poignantly pointed out, more than half of the England team wouldn’t be playing in the national team if it wasn’t for immigration.”
Read“Seven of England’s starting 11 players against Italy had a parent or grandparent born overseas, according to the U.K.’s Migration Museum. The parents of Saka, 19, are from Nigeria, and those of Sancho, 21, are from Trinidad and Tobago. Rashford, 23, has grandparents from Saint Kitts.”
Read“Seven of the Three Lions players who started against Denmark have a parent or grandparent from overseas.”
Read“The country’s hopes rest on a team very different from the all-white squad of 1966. A poster created by the Migration Museum showed what the England team would look like without the players who had a parent or grandparent born abroad: Just three of the 11 starting players remained. Missing were stars who included team captain Harry Kane, whose father is Irish; Marcus Rashford, whose mother is from Saint Kitts; Jamaica-born Raheem Sterling; and Bukayo Saka, a Londoner with Nigerian parents.”
Read“The diverse complexion of the England team has been another reason why a new generation of fans are rallying behind the Three Lions. Seven of the starting XI against Denmark had parents or grandparents from overseas, according to the Migration Museum.”
Read“A graphic which has gone viral on social media shows how once you cross out names of all players who have either a parent or grandparent born abroad, very few remain.”
Read“The England football team is more diverse than many people realise. The London Migration Museum has run a campaign to remind us that without immigration the England team as we know it would not exist.”
ReadJonathan Liew writing in the New Statesman highlights our Football Moves People campaign during Euro 2020.
ReadCampaign covered our live line-up and scores graphics before and after the England-Germany game at Euro 2020 as part of our Football Moves People campaign.
ReadThe Migration Museum in London highlights the diverse immigrant backgrounds of soccer players
ReadA personal essay by our trustee George Alagiah on why Britain needs a permanent Migration Museum.
ReadThe Migration Museum and our Humanae exhibition featured in a BBC Ideas video unpacking the myth of a biological basis for categorising humans by race.
ReadThe British Journal of GPs reviews our Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS digital exhibition.
ReadAn in-depth BBC News feature on our Departures exhibition, featuring an interview with its curator and our head of creative content Aditi Anand.
ReadThe Migration Museum’s head of creative content, Aditi Anand, and exhibition contributor Allyson Williams MBE speak to Jo Good on BBC Radio London about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS.
ReadDr Raj Khanchandani, a contributor to the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation exhibition, speaks to BBC Three Counties Radio.
ReadDeutsche Welle interviewed our projects manager Andrew Steeds, who oversaw our Germans in Britain exhibition, for an article on the uncertainty facing Germans in the UK as the Brexit deadline looms.
ReadEastern Eye covered Heart of the Nation, including an interview with its curator and our head of creative content Aditi Anand.
ReadThe Evening Standard selected our Departures podcast in its list of recommendations of music and podcasts to listen to.
ReadFAD magazine featured our Heart of the Nation exhibition in its list of the top 5 online art exhibitions to see during lockdown.
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