A paper from RomMig Co-Investigator Tamara West has been published in the Journal European History Quarterly. Available online and open access here the paper is titled ‘Disruptive Journeys: Multi-Sited Archives of ‘Invasion’ and the Everyday’.
Tamara’s paper explores one of RomMig’s case studies- and the basis for her development of the project’s ArcGis Maps – the 1906 Germany-UK migration of Roma and Sinti. Here she uses newspaper and associated visual media to investigate the sensationalist reportage and the local responses to this transnational journey.
The exploration of the media coverage of this event provides a way to geographically and narratively track the activities and local interactions undertaken within a temporary and high-profile migration. It also enables the exploration of domestic, locale-specific discourses around migration, spectacle and the everyday. Her paper seeks to explore how, and where, the event was documented in order to explore how it was externally remembered and later archived. It asks how a perceived spectacle, and the memory of that spectacle, is subsumed into the everydayness of place.