Tyrol's history of migration: A UNESCO event for the future!
Tyrol's history of migration: A UNESCO event for the future!
The collection "Here at home. Migration stories of Tirol" has a massive success: over 40 partial collections with historical documents that record memories and stories from migrants from Tyrol were included in the Austrian UNESCO documentary heir. These documents tell of labor migration, mainly the so -called "guest workers" from the former Yugoslavia and Turkey, as well as other countries of origin such as Tunisia and the Philippines. The head of the Documentation Archives Migration Tirol (DAM), Christina Hollomey-Gasser, described this recognition as "great confirmation of the previous work at a high level", as tirol.orf reported.
It is particularly impressive that this is the first official recognition of labor migration in Austria from the 1960s to 1980s. Dirk Ruppnow, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophical and History of the University of Innsbruck, was pleased with this step, which is migration to the integral history of Austria. The entire inventory comprises 46 sub -stocks with personal memorabilia, photographs and interviews, which were compiled by a collective campaign under the title "We collect! Migration is part of the history of Tyrol" between 2016 and 2017. This campaign, supported by regional institutions and the University of Innsbruck, was carried out by Dam.tirol as part of the comprehensive history of Tyrol.digital accessibility and future projects
The initiative, which is to take place as part of the UNESCO program "Memory of the World", has the goal of raising awareness of the migration stories. The DAM plans to generate more research inquiries and reach a wider public. Here, digital formats are also used to make the rich stocks accessible to everyone. The "Here at home" initiative has already been digitized and is available on the website here.
The collaboration of the DAM with various institutions such as the Tyrolean Landesmuseen and the University of Innsbruck is highlighted as future -oriented. Hollomey-Gasser plans to continue working at a high level and to expand the archive to expand new aspects of the history of migration. For the next year there is a project about the 2015 escape movements in order to bring these less voices to the public debate.
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