Ellen Røsjø, Oslo byarkiv Prosjektet Oslos multikulturelle arkiver

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1 Ellen Røsjø, Oslo byarkiv Prosjektet Oslos multikulturelle arkiver Seminar i Trondheim, oktober 2012

2 Byens hukommelse! 20 hyllekilometer, eldste dokument foto 160 oslofilmer, 1100 filmaviser Kart og tegningsmateriale, ca. 400 hm. Elektroniske arkiv, 36 uttrekk

3 Oslo city of immigrants : Oslo is Europe s fastest growing town 1905: 7.6% are immigrants (foreign nationals) 6% of total population are Swedes 1930: 4.6 % 1970: 1.6 % foreigners - only 0.6 % are Guest workers 2005: 22.4 % of Oslo s population have an immigrant background (defined as immigrants and persons born in Norway with immigrant parents) 2012: 29.6% with an immigrant background Population growth in Oslo

4 40 % of the pupils in Oslo have an immigrant background What can they find out about the first generation? Who can they identify with? Oslo City Archives the city s memory but: Where are the immigrants own voices we asked in 2004? 330 registered ethnic and multicultural organizations in Oslo Which traces of their activities will be preserved here in 100 years? (awareness: if you don t leave a trace ) 4

5 The Oslo Multicultural Archives Project - motto: Everyone has the right to a past! (Edvard Bull, Norwegian historian) The Oslo Multicultural Archives Project was an attempt to obtain a more representative societal memory. The purpose of the project was to collect, preserve and make available a number of key archives from new minorities in Oslo. The aim was that Oslo City's cultural diversity should thus become part of the city's memory and could be used in our outreach work. The project period March Funding by The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority, Arts Council Norway and The Fritt Ord Foundation 5

6 Results The project resulted in about twenty collected archives Four interviews A booklet and the exhibition Our traces" / "Spor etter oss " Several articles and lectures in Norway and Denmark The project aroused great interest and was given media coverage Theatre about immigration a century ago - in our repository - in 2005 in cooperation with Nordic Black Theatre, for pupils A study package for pupils in Oslo (Robert Levin f. eks.) now on the internet) 6

7 Follow-up: Multiple voices minority women in organizational life Women s organizations often have a shorter history. Documentation is found on the Internet and in social media Their activities are often primarily networking & social activities. It is therefore important to interview some of these women. Together with The MiRA Centre, Oslo City Archives established a project where we interviewed leading women in immigrant communities (8 edited in a book) Funding: Arts Council Norway and The Fritt Ord Foundation 7

8 Cliff Moustache forteller oss om Nordic Black Theatres første utklippsbok

9 Miloud Guiderk, Cosmopolite og vår Otto Meijer

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11 Gambisk forening overrekker sitt arkiv

12 Vi underskriver avtalen med Fakhra Salimi, MiRA-Senteret om Ruth Reese-arkivet

13 Plakater fra pakistanske foreninger

14 Bokhandleren fra Pakistan

15 Ayesha Khan

16 Arkiv som har kommet inn under prosjektet: Nordic Black Theatre Fremmedarbeiderforeningen Aud Korbøl Cosmopolite Primærmedisinsk verksted Tove Andersson The Gambian Association MiRA-Senteret Ruth Reese Pakistan Norwegian Welfare Organisation Pakistan Workers Welfare Union Bazm-e-Ahbabe Pakistan Norway Soofi, Muhammad Anwar Pakistan Advisory Council All Pakistani Workers Organisation in Norway Nederlandse Club Oslo Ungarsk venneforening VINOF Vietnamesisk-norsk forbund Islamabad/Rawalpindi Welfare Society Norway Central Jamaat-eAhl-e-Sunnat Norway Damini house of Culture Frauentreff Avisa Utrop

17 Skoleprosjektet En innvandret historie

18 Nordic Black Theatre. Drama i hukommelsen

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47 Digitale fortellinger Ayesha: art_id=111516&fylke_nr= Ruth Reese: art_id=113467&fylke_nr=

48 Intervjuer Vi har intervjuet sentrale personer i innvandrerorganisasjoner og flerkulturelle institusjoner: Cliff Moustache, Nordic Black Theatre Muhammad Anwar Soofi, Pakistan Workers Welfare Union, Bazm-e-Ahbabe, med mer William Bright Taylor, Fremmedarbeiderforeningen Amani Olubanjo Buntu, African Youth, African History Week

49 Innvandrerkvinners stemmer Ledere for et titalls kvinneorganisasjoner intervjues i samarbeid med MiRA-senteret 2010

50 Mangfoldige stemmer minoritetskvinner i organisasjonslivet

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