Migration Stories: The Making of Modern Birmingham

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“The nation is not homogeneous but is,
and always has been, plural, fragmented and differentiated”.

Birmingham has been called both a ‘workshop of the world’ and a ‘city of migrants’.

• How are migrant stories connected to the making of modern Birmingham?
• What hidden histories of work and labour exit in the city?
• How have different migrant communities have been linked to the same area, neighbourhood, street?
• How are migration stories reflected and contained within the city’s archives?

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