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I'm a migrant in my own country
I am a migrant of a very specific type: My parents were colonialists and living in Belgian Congo.
My mother's parents got to know each other in Africa. My grandfather was from Belgium and was a miner for the Belgian Miner's Union. He travelled to Morocco and Congo. In Tangier, Morocco he met my grandmother, a Spanish woman from Gibraltar with Arabic descent. They married and had 12 children - one…
Contributors
- Frederik
Subject
- …
- Return migration
- Money
- Congo
- Colonial countries
- Colonialism
- Mining
- Belgium
- Human migration
- Republic of the Congo
- Human migration
Contributors
- Frederik
Subject
- …
- Return migration
- Money
- Congo
- Colonial countries
- Colonialism
- Mining
- Belgium
- Human migration
- Republic of the Congo
- Human migration
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Places
- Tangier, Morocco
- Congo
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Republic of the Congo
- Mechelen
- Republic of the Congo
- Mechelen
- Belgium
Identifier
- 635
- http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/71bcbec0-0b51-0136-fbbf-3e59990757ad
Language
- en
- eng
Is part of
- Europeana Migration Collection Day: Brussels, House of European History, Brussels, 2018-03-15–2018-03-17
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-07-25T07:45:32.726Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-11-03T11:22:04.772Z