AToM - Archives and Traces of Migration

Project description

Project AToM seeks to explore issues of appraisal, preservation, description and access of archival and documentary heritage material that documents emigration, expatriation, immigration, and diaspora communities. Project consortium are made by ICARUS Croatia, National Archives of Hungary, Spanish State Archives and Archive De Domijnen. Archival inclusiveness in highlighting migration heritage from past and documenting and preserving present migration heritage is in the core of this project activities. They are designed in a way to accentuate these facts and position of archives as places of communication among communities, cultures, and time periods. The overarching concept of project is that migration is transnational, transgenerational, and interdisciplinary phenomenon that has multiple stakeholders involved. Among these, archives and memory institutions have immense role. They can act as societal agents that can develop their activities to be inclusive, supporting participatory approach, reflect diversity.

Main activities within this project, e.g. training and education, migrant oral histories and building and reflecting migrant collections, seek multi-method, multi-pronged and transnational approach. The objectives set with this project are: • Reinforce the capacity of archivists and other documentary heritage professionals in area of historical and contemporary migrations i.e., archival traces of migrations. • Connect archivists and documentary heritage professionals with respective migrant communities (e.g., descendants of immigrants, groups, and individuals). • Co-create specific cultural products (e.g., finding aids, oral histories, exhibitions) with members of respective communities (i.e., co-presentation of archival and documentary cultural heritage).

Objective

- Innovation

Priorities

- Social inclusion