A Brief History of Multicultural London

Panikos Panayi

While migration may have become key to understanding the modern world, the former British imperial capital of London, the first truly global city, has a unique history of interacting with people from beyond its shores. Its development into the largest city in the world by the early nineteenth century, a position it would hold well into the following century, largely took place as a result of internal migration, including, however, significant numbers of people from Ireland, as well as decreasing mortality due to health and nutritional advances.

Italian Street Musicians from Thomson Smith, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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The Rhythm of Memory: Commemorating Music and Migration in Detroit

Riley Linebaugh

More than 150 years after the founding of its first musical association, the city of Detroit erected an historical marker commemorating the German-American Harmonie Club in a broader effort to rehabilitate Detroit’s suffering reputation. The plaque did not connect the city’s German-American musical tradition with its better known African American musical scene, characterized by blues, jazz and later Motown. Twenty years later, in 2021, Detroit sponsored a public marker in honor of Black Bottom, an historically African American neighborhood that was previously inhabited by German-Americans and that played an important role in Detroit’s musical development. Despite geographic overlap and chronological continuity, the city has commemorated these histories in isolation from one another, raising the question: why do cities “remember” things differently and with what consequences?

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Interview with Elena Peloso and Dario Dalla Mura, directors of the film “Lassú in Germania”

Elena Peloso and Dario Dalla Mura during their work

How did you come up with the subject migration to Germany? What were your interests?

We are a non-profit association that has been making documentaries about history and memory for 13 years. In recent years we have also been interested in issues and problems related to work and through that we came across the memory of the Verona Emigration Center and at the same time we met the historical researcher Elia Morandi and his work “Governing emigration”. The idea was born with him.

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