My aunt sent me this Somalian shash as a gift. I was meant to wear it when I got married but for me it’s my connection to Somalia, as I’ve grown up and lived here all my life. Only married women in Somalia wear these headscarves, but I used to wear it when I was fifteen and got some funny looks from Somalian women.
This picture asks questions, rather than illustrating an answer, about the subject of migration. For me it celebrates the multi-ethnic make-up of cities such as Bradford while acknowledging some of the tensions that can arise between communities. The Asian migrants to Bradford were originally welcomed to the city to work in the textile mills. When this picture was taken during the 1980s most of this industry disappeared, and together with the rise of far-right groups, tensions between communities increased in many areas.
Our Refugee Week display of images from A Polaroid for a Refugee ranked number 1 in Time Out’s list of things to do for Refugee Week 2018 in London.
The Migration Museum highlighted the diversity of the England team in a campaign to coincide with England’s first World Cup game against Tunisia on 18 June 2018 asking what the starting XI would look like without the impact of first and second-generation immigrants.
