Migration, Identity and New Information Technology

Odyssey Group workshop to be held at University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, 23rd-27th August 2004


Migration and Diaspora Links

(NB clicking on a link opens a new browser window)

General     Ethnic Communities     Employment     Transport     Human Settlements

Migration (general)

History of International Migration Site - hosted at Leiden University, Netherlands, providing resources for study of European migration

H-Migration - part of H-Net, "enhancing scholarly communication about the global history of migration and the acculturation of immigrants and their descendants into their new society"

Ethnic America - part of the Digital History website

Migration Network Australia - a national resource to re-establish the profile of migration research in Australia

Ethnic Communities

African     Black Community    Chinese    Cornish    Huguenots    Irish    Jewish    Palestinian    Scottish     South Asian    Turkish    Vietnamese

African

African Foundation for Development - Supporting African diaspora's contribution to Africa's development

African Diaspora: - internet resources site at African Studies Department, Columbia University

African Diaspora Links: links to various resources

Township, South Africa University of Ghana, Legon Ghana Red Cross project

Black Comunity

Black Information Link - national Black generic policy research and networking organisation, which uses information technology as a primary means of communication

Operation Black Vote - non-party political campaign to promote the voice of the black comunity in the political arena

 

Cornish

All things Cornish webring

Cornish History - an online journal and educational resource devoted to the historical study of both Cornwall and the Cornish Diaspora

Institute of Cornish Studies - at Exeter University, established jointly with Cornwall County Council

Cornish Ancestors

Cornish Association of Victoria, Australia

Chinese

Chinese Diaspora - hosted at UCLA

Dim Sum - website for the British Chinese community

Hong Kong tram model, Macau museum Shenzhen

Huguenots

The National Huguenot Society

Huguenot website - portal for English-speaking descendants and researchers of French Protestant refugees in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Huguenot Society of South Africa

Huguenot memorial, Paarl Table Mountain Farmstead, Paarl Valley Afrikaans language monument, Paarl

Irish

ERIN (Emigration Resources Information Network): - at the Irish Centre for Migration Studies, currently at University of Cork

Centre for Migration Studies: - based at Ulster-America Folk Park, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Irish Diaspora Net: - the archive of the Irish Diaspora Studies scholarly network

Ulster Historical Foundation - a non-profit making organisation founded in 1956 to promote interest in Irish genealogy and history, with particular reference to the province of Ulster.

Irish Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University

 

Jewish

Beth Hatefutsoth:- Museum of the Jewish People Online

 

Palestinian

SHAML: - Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre website

 

Scottish

Scottish Diaspora Project: - organised by Communities of the Future and the Scottish Council Foundation

 

South Asian

South Asian Diaspora Project: - Sponsored by the South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley

Taj Mahal Billboards, Chennai Temple, Tamil Nadu

Turkish

Turkish Society of Rochester

Assembly of Turkish America Associations - home of 57 Turkish American Associations across US, Canada and Turkey

Austurk Educational and Cultural Association - organises social and cultural activities to Turkish and other communities in Australia.

Bosphorus bridge Istanbul expressway Bosphorus

Vietnamese

Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Center


Employment & Migration

Hop-picking: a distributed archive - web-based resources on seasonal migration between urban and rural loctations

The Navvies - web-based materials on the navvies (from 'navigators') ie labourers engaged in the construction of canals, railways and roads

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, "an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941"

Business for Social Responsibility: briefing on Migrant Labour

International Standards on Labour Migration - International Labour Organization Conventions and Recommendations


Migration and Transport

Township Transport -

Turkish Transport and Accessibility

 

 


Migration and Human Settlements

Redfern, Sydney - Redfern is the centre of Sydney's inner city aboriginal (Koori) community but is under the usual pressures of gentrification, due to its proximity to the city centre; riots took place there in February 2004 following the death of a local youth.

Gecekondu - Squatter settlements in Istanbul - webpage on ArchNet

Shanty town Istanbul - onliine artice in Turkish Daily News, 12 June 1996

Fatal Shore to Red Centre - Periphery and Centre Reversed - urban settlement in Australia


 

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