Looking forward to presenting my paper “Bound Together at Sea: Convict Sociability and Life Aboard HMS Calcutta, 1803” at the GIS Sociabilités Workshop at The National Archives, UK, this week.

What forms of sociability did convicts experience during the voyage?

The workshop is organised by Marion Amblard (Laboratoire ILCEA4 & Pléiade, UGA), Jessica Nelson (The National Archives, UK) and Sabrina Juillet Garzon (Pléiade & ILCEA4, USPN).

#earlymodern #maritimehistory #history #histodons #forcedmigration

Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities. To this day, it is still too contaminated for inhabitants and their descendants to return. A trust fund that had been set up to help support the survivors ran out of funds in the late 2010s.

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When was the first time you experienced #racism - after being displaced from your homelands & starting over in a Global North place?

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From Anticolonial Heroes to Post-Independence Liabilities: Morphing Refugee Categorizations in African Geopolitics
New blogpost by Rose Jaji on @nwff blog

https://fluchtforschung.net/from-anticolonial-heroes-to-post-independence-liabilities-morphing-refugee-categorizations-in-african-geopolitics/

#refugees #africa #ForcedMigration #histodons

Wo sind eigentlich die DP-Gedenkstätten?

Im Mai 1945 befanden sich zwischen 6,5 und 11 Millionen „Displaced Persons” auf dem Gebiet der westlichen Besatzungszonen Deutschlands. Im Gegensatz zur umfassenden KZ-Gedenkstättenlandschaft sind die meisten ehemaligen DP-Lager heute unsichtbar, wurden abgerissen oder umgenutzt, ohne dass Hinweise auf ihre Geschichte angebracht wurden 👇

https://nghm.hypotheses.org/40827 via @nghm_uos

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