In France, Marseilles is still sometimes known as La Cité Phocéene after its founders from Phocaea, now the Turkish coastal town of Foça.

Most of the historic episodes covered are Euro- or Americo-centric: it is pejorative western narratives about migration that he is most keen to confront. Britain continues to be a major source of emigrants in the 21st century – not something we often hear about. The Migration Museum has appointed five new Trustees to its Board to help us build on the success of our current home in the heart of Lewisham and establish a highly relevant and accessible new cultural destination that puts migration at the heart of national stories, narratives and conversations.But if you trace our movements over a few dozen generations, you’ll discover that, absent force majeure, people are homebodies, moving barely a few weeks’ walking distance from their birthplaces. The route from south-east Europe to north-west Europe is one taken by thousands of people seeking asylum and refuge from war and persecution.

Migrants is a stunning wordless picture book…It is a book which will encourage discussion about what it means to be a refugee and the terrible journey many people have had to endure…It is powerful.Being a big advocate for localization and simple living I just have no patience for that idea at this point.

The theme for this year’s International Migrants Day in the UK is “I Am A Migrant”, and there is no better way to mark the day than by foregrounding voices of lived experience. We have here the seed of an enticing and potentially more influential project: a modern history that treats the modern nation state – pretending to self-reliance behind ever-more-futile barriers – as but a passing political arrangement, and not always a very useful one. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.This sets predictable limits on Miller’s work: after a certain passage of time, untold stories generally have to stay that way. Clive Jacobs is a serial entrepreneur and businessman who has created and invested in businesses for over 30 years. The first human settlers in Britain migrated here about 25,000 years ago and more immigrants close immigrant A person who arrives from another country. But he himself notes Olaudah Equiano’s account of the crossing, in which the slave ship’s side were lined with nets to prevent precisely that.