100 Images of Migration: journeys of the century
Photographs charting 100 years of migration tell touching stories of identity, community, suffering and hope An Oromo family visit the seaside in Brighton, having come to the UK as refugees from Ethiopia under the UK Government Gateway Protection Programme. Photograph: Howard Davies 100 Images of Migration Hackney Museum, London E8 Until 31 August 2013 hackney.gov.uk/migration. "The photographs in this exhibition showing young Italians in north London or the Jewish woman holding the family pendant she hid in her shoe while in Auschwitz broaden our understanding of the migratory patterns that have energised Britain beyond that particular wave at a time when so much of the immigration is now from Europe. When Gillian Duffy approached Gordon Brown in Rochdale that fateful day three years ago, her specific concerns were about eastern Europeans – even though she lives in a town where one in five ...
