“The news stories on migration often look at people coming to the UK but what about those who’ve left? A new display at this wonderful museum looks at people who’ve moved elsewhere over the last 400 years — from the Mayflower Pilgrims fleeing persecution, to the shameful deportation of Windrushers. There are lesser known stories too, such as Welsh emigrants who went to South America to form their own “little Wales beyond Wales”. The exhibition is creatively designed with departure boards and trollies carrying suitcases to give the place the feel of an airport.”

A feature in The Athletic highlighting our Football Moves People and the ways in which it explores key questions of identity, representation and belonging.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores the impact of British emigration and our Departures exhibition in a long-read feature in the i newspaper. 

BBC News featured our line-up graphic for the Euro 2020 final from our Football Moves People campaign in an articles about Black and Asian fan responses to the England team and the racist abuse directed at some Black players at the end of the Euro 2020 final.

“As the Migration Museum so poignantly pointed out, more than half of the England team wouldn’t be playing in the national team if it wasn’t for immigration.”

“Today this England team has made Englishness and patriotism itself an idea not that some of us are ashamed of but that all of us can be proud.”

“Seven of England’s starting 11 players against Italy had a parent or grandparent born overseas, according to the U.K.’s Migration Museum. The parents of Saka, 19, are from Nigeria, and those of Sancho, 21, are from Trinidad and Tobago. Rashford, 23, has grandparents from Saint Kitts.”

“As the Migration Museum has pointed out, most of the team’s players have parents or grandparents born outside the country. Unlike their World Cup-winning predecessors in 1966 and the team in 1996, when England hosted the European Championships, they are not wholly, or overwhelmingly, white.”

“In England’s semifinal against Denmark, seven of its starters were born abroad or had a parent or grandparent who was born overseas, according to the Migration Museum in London.”

British High Commissioner to Australia Vicki Treadall highlights our Football Moves People campaign in an op-ed ahead of the Euro 2020 final.

“Seven of the Three Lions players who started against Denmark have a parent or grandparent from overseas.”

The Migration Museum’s Football Moves People campaign featured in an article in French football magazine SoFoot on what Gareth Southgate and the England team at Euro 2020 represents.

Sky Sports News featured the Migration Museum’s Football Moves People campaign in the run-up to the Euro 2020 final.

“The country’s hopes rest on a team very different from the all-white squad of 1966. A poster created by the  Migration Museum showed what the England team would look like without the players who had a parent or grandparent born abroad: Just three of the 11 starting players remained. Missing were stars who included team captain Harry Kane, whose father is Irish; Marcus Rashford, whose mother is from Saint Kitts; Jamaica-born Raheem Sterling; and Bukayo Saka, a Londoner with Nigerian parents.”

“The squad has transformed culturally since the last time the English were champions. I’m rooting for the future it represents.”

“The diverse complexion of the England team has been another reason why a new generation of fans are rallying behind the Three Lions. Seven of the starting XI against Denmark had parents or grandparents from overseas, according to the Migration Museum.”

“The Migration Museum in London this week produced a poster showing what England’s semi-final side would have looked like if players with a parent or grandparent born abroad were excluded: Just three of the original starting 11 remained.”

“The England football team is more diverse than many people realise. The London Migration Museum has run a campaign to remind us that without immigration the England team as we know it would not exist.”

“A graphic which has gone viral on social media shows how once you cross out names of all players who have either a parent or grandparent born abroad, very few remain.”

“A recent graphic promoted by the UK’s Migration Museum shows a stark picture of what England’s starting 11 would look like without immigration over the past two generations. With only three players without a parent or grandparent born overseas, the national team is held up as a microcosm of a diverse, multicultural population.”