Miller maintains that in practice the word ‘migrant’ clumps people whose experience of migration is extremely diverse – slaves and spouses, refugees and retirees, nomads and expats, conquerors and job-seekers. Sam Miller has taken an often tedious and touchy subject and transformed it into a thought-provoking, insightful, and deeply moving read, guaranteed to add nuance to your worldview. The smugglers provide no food or water to the migrants, who must be careful not to feel asleep or they will fall from the overcrowded trucks and die. Learn more about what the UN Human Rights Office does to promote and protect the human rights of all migrants, regardless of their status.

Journey through a series of rooms in which the struggles, joys, creativity and resilience of living in a new land are brought to life through audio, films, photographs and personal objects. His central argument is that humans are fundamentally migratory in ways that we often fail to recognise.

We’re delighted to have received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for our project ‘Connecting Lewisham to its Migration Heritage’. Miller, in a praiseworthy bid to tell a global story, adopts the broadest possible definition of migration: one that embraces “slaves and spouses, refugees and retirees, nomads and expats, conquerors and job-seekers. The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as nations. Over the past year, young people from across Lewisham have been designing exhibits responding to what migration means to them as part of Moving Stories: Lewisham, a creative competition we ran during Borough of Culture, supported by Landsec.

Baker tried to bring her own experience of liberation to the world: adopting children from all races, from all over the world, and bringing them back to her home in the south of France. His poems have been published by Reliquiae, Bad Lilies, The Interpreter’s House, and Under the Radar, among others.Grandson of the equally legendary Trojan hero Aeneas, Brutus was said to have been born in Rome; but, exiled from his birthplace, he travelled western Europe before finally settling here. In this guest blog Olivia Bridge considers the contribution EU nationals have made to the museum sector, and what impact the UK’s withdrawal from the EU may have on the culture and heritage industries.

Dr Trotter chose a study for this painting as the cover image for her book ‘The Married Widows of Cornwall ’. However, in trying to take on these sorts of right wing arguments, he argues that humankind has an “urge to move”. When we migrate we often leave our loved ones behind and for many migrants this separation can be difficult to overcome. the two World Wars, the Cold War close Cold War The political tension and competition for power that existed between the communist East and the democratic West after World War Two.This day is also a reminder that human rights are not ‘earned’ by virtue of being a hero or a victim, but are an entitlement of everyone, regardless of origin, age, gender and status.