Ban Ying e.V. is a human-rights-based counseling center and a shelter dedicated to combating human trafficking.
Our free, anonymous services are available to all migrant women*, regardless of residence status, with a special focus on those affected by trafficking, women* from South-East Asia, and domestic workers in diplomatic household. Through our human-rights-based approach, we combine social work, active advocacy, public relations, and cultural and language mediation to empower our clients to navigate their situations with confidence and reclaim their autonomy.
The Emigration Museum in Cavasso Nuovo (Friuli) illustrates the characteristics of the migratory flows that have affected western Friuli since the 15th century. A section of the Museum is dedicated to female emigration, from the earliest forms of street peddling to the emigration of working-class women after World War II.
The Emigration Museum in Cavasso Nuovo, a small village in the Italian northeastern region of Friuli, opened on 16 September 2000 at Polcenigo-Fanna Palace (also known as Palazat). The museum structure, one of the first in Italy dedicated to emigration, presents a complete framework of the migratory flows and destinations of workers from Western Friuli. A section of the Museum “Nannies, maids, workers, grass widows: migrant women and the women of emigrants” is devoted to the female migration experience. The section highlights how female work and agency, of women who have left and of those who have not left, mark the great transformations and the laborious social and economic progress that have impacted Friuli in all its aspects since the late 19th century.
The provincial dimension of the Museum follows a very precise logic: understanding the characteristics of emigration from Friuli as a whole presupposes the study of the different territorial specificities, even at a village level, but in a complex dimension. Indeed, in western Friuli and in the Friuli Region in general, the events of the recent past are closely linked to emigration, an experience which has involved almost every Friulian family.
Gabriela Nicolescu is an anthropologist, curator and writer interested in what visual and material culture perspectives bring to development and migration studies, political economy, and the anthropology of health; museums and museum practices; and the history of social sciences, especially in Europe.
She has conducted extensive ethnographic work in Romania, Italy and the UK on the shifting relations between politics and representation, the diffusion and social organization of cultural ideas, migration, remittances and notions of care work. Gabriela has curated and co-curated multiple international exhibitions in Austria, Romania, Hong Kong, Philippines and the UK. Gabriela completed her PhD in Visual Anthropology in Goldsmiths, University of London. She taught in Goldsmiths, University of London and in University of Bucharest and worked for Romanian Peasant Museum, University of London, University College Cork and University of Oxford. Currently she works as a Senior Editor for the National Library of Romania and is a founding member of the Centre for Visual and Digital Anthropology.
The Basque Observatory of Immigration aims to analyze, understand, and assess the impact of migration flows in the Basque Country, with the goal of creating a publicly useful tool for systematic understanding of the migration phenomenon.
It was established in 2004 as an organization linked to the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country (EHU).
Uppsala University is consistently ranked among the world’s leading universities. Through the newly established Uppsala University Future Institutes (UUniFI), the university promotes interdisciplinary research on societal challenges. One of these is the Institute for Migration Research, which brings together researchers from different disciplines to address a broad range of migration-related topics.
With more than 50,000 students and over 7,000 employees, Uppsala University is consistently ranked among the world’s leading universities. Through the newly established Uppsala University Future Institutes (UUniFI), the university promotes interdisciplinary research on societal challenges. One of these is the Institute for Migration Research, which brings together researchers from different disciplines to address a broad range of migration-related topics. In addition, migration research is conducted within several departments and centers, making it a well-established field at the university.
An orange-glowing staircase and 6,000 exhibits in a spectacular industrial setting: The Ruhr Museum’s permanent exhibition at the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site shows the fascinating natural and cultural history of one of the world’s largest industrial regions.
The Regional Museum of the Ruhr Area shows in its permanent exhibition the entire natural and cultural history of the region from the formation of coal over 300 million years ago to today’s structural change to the Ruhr metropolis. Visitors follow the former path of the coal and descend deeper and deeper from the present into the history of the Ruhr region. Over three levels, they pass through windowless bunkers, huge industrial machines, raw concrete walls and conveyor belts. In between, 6,000 exhibits show in often fascinating detail how a formerly agricultural region developed into Europe’s largest coal and steel production area and then became the Metropole Ruhr.
The Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp is located in the original departure warehouses of the Red Star Line, through which approximately two million migrants travelled to North America between 1873 and 1934. The museum combines a maritime collection on the operations of the Red Star Line with a substantial body of biographical migration heritage. Oral history is central to its work.
The Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp is located in the original departure warehouses of the Red Star Line, through which approximately two million migrants travelled to North America between 1873 and 1934. Within these buildings, primarily third class passengers underwent medical inspections and administrative procedures before embarkation. The museum combines a maritime collection on the operations of the Red Star Line with a substantial body of biographical migration heritage. Oral history is central to its work. Through recorded life story interviews, the museum documents personal experiences of departure, journey, and settlement, including contemporary migration to and from Belgium. By connecting historical transatlantic departures with present day mobility, and by preserving testimonies alongside personal objects and photographs, the museum presents migration as both a structured historical reality and a lived human experience that continues today.
As a network of researchers from 52 countries, engaged in the timely mission of unveiling women migrant workers presence and participation in the construction of Europe.
The transdisciplinary outlook combines a wide variety of expertise in history, sociology, demography, economy, anthropology, political science and the arts, among many other fields. This will foster complementary perspectives to show women migrants’ presence, obstacles and capacities in past and present migratory contexts.
Women on the Move is a science and technology network funded over a four-year period and developing networking tools to meet the research coordination and capacity building objectives set out in the COST Action’s Memorandum of Understanding. Its Grant Holder is Université de Picardie Jules Verne, and it was previously hosted by Université Paris Cité.
At seven authentic sites, the LVR-Industrial Museum relate to the story of industrialisation along the Rhine and the Ruhr and how this work and daily grind formed the people in past and present, including in terms of migration and diversity.
The Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) is a local authority association with around 22.000 employees working for the 9.8 million people in the Rhineland. With its 41 schools, ten clinics, 20 museums and cultural institutions, four youth welfare centres, the state youth welfare office and the association for curative education, it fulfils tasks that are carried out throughout the Rhineland. The 13 independent cities and twelve districts in the Rhineland and the Aachen city region are the member authorities of the LVR. At seven authentic sites, the LVR-Industrial Museum relate to the story of industrialisation along the Rhine and the Ruhr and how this work and daily grind formed the people in past and present, including in terms of migration and diversity. The museum sites are the places where all this actually took place:the former factories, now being the sites of the museum.
Founded in 2008, Humanity in Action (HIA) Poland is part of the transatlantic Humanity in Action network with non-profit, non-partisan partner organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. The educational, networking and leadership programs focus on respect for human rights and actions supporting democracy, civil society and multiculturalism.
HIA Poland shares its values through education and the support of forms of civic engagement that are shaped by specific historical and cultural contexts. HIA’s objective is to facilitate and promote dialogue to respond to the challenges that democratic societies face as they become increasingly diverse. Deeply engaged in human rights, pluralism and democracy, the uniqueness of HIA lies in the multitude of perspectives that are brought together in a vibrant international community.
