5. Remediation: reappropriations in digital media and in the essay film

218An earlier version of this chapter has been published as: "Rethinking Remediation and Reworking the Archive. Transcultural Reappropriations of Documentary Images of Migration." In: ISTME (In Search of a Transcultural Memory in Europe) Working Paper 2/2013. Lund: Centre for European Studies.
219On its homebound voyage from Australia the SS Empire Windrush had passed the Caribbean where 492 cheap tickets had been sold to West Indians looking for a job in the 'mother- country', many of them ex-servicemen who had fought for Britain during the Second World War. In those days immigration was not policed: before the Commonwealth Immigration Act was imposed in 1962 to restrict ...

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