Diasporas, Migration and Identities is a trans- disciplinary research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It includes arts and humanities scholars from all over the UK working on individual research, large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, and in international networks. The aim is to research, discuss and present issues related to diasporas and migration, and their past and present impact on subjectivity and identity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics and sociality.
Unfortunately all funding for the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme has now been allocated.
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The Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme Final Event will take place on Wednesday 10 February 2010 at Tate Britain. Email Katie Roche (k.a.roche@leeds.ac.uk) if you would like to attend
You can now see the Findings and Achievements of our small research grants, as well as our networks and workshops projects
See also Key Findings from our large research projects
Don't forget to look at our Events page for further information about what we and our award holders are doing.
Striking Women: Voices of South Asian Workers
This free exhibition is at the Women's Library, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT
from 8 October - 19 December 2009
www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
A Long Way from Home - Diaspora Communities in Roman Britain
This project will explore the cultural and biological experience of immigrant communities in Roman Britain. It will challenge popular assumptions of an essentially homogenous Romano-British population by examining the diversity of cultural identities in this remote province. Evidence for diaspora communities will be analysed through an innovative combination of material culture, skeletal and isotope research. In addition to the proposed academic publications, we will develop outputs accessible to the wider public through a creative collaboration with an established author of children’s books.
How did diaspora communities create identities that were distinct from the host society, and maintain ideological links with their homeland? Can we identify incomers, and do they differ from the host population in their health and diet? How was material culture in Romano-British burial used by migrants to express and contest their identities? Did forced migration of individuals and/or family groups impact on their health? Was the consumption or rejection of certain foods used by diaspora groups to integrate with or distinguish themselves from their host societies? Such questions resonate with key issues concerning diaspora communities in modern day societies. More
Mapping Migrant Cultures in Manchester 1880-2000
This project provides a new vision of the construction of diasporic cultures in modern Britain through enabling migrants to digitally map their own life experiences. Connecting Manchester’s unique archives of oral testimony with new interviewing, and with the visualization capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology will generate an innovative micro-history of the spaces and movements through which migrants constructed their own identities in industrial and post-industrial Manchester.
Through collaboration with migrant associations, the Manchester Jewish Museum and the Manchester Public Library, research focuses on the changing cultural landscapes through which Jewish and Caribbean immigrants to Manchester created distinctive collective identities between 1880 and 2000. Digital mapping provides new methods for analyzing and representing the internal heterogeneity of these diasporas, how they interacted with native and other immigrant groups, and how diasporic cultures have been remade by subsequent generations.
The GIS methods and spatial approaches developed in this project will have considerable applications for migration studies and the international humanities research community. They will also provide a platform for future collaborative projects with the Irish, South Asian and Chinese communities of Manchester. More
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