Diaspora · A guide to the archive
Compare migration to Britain, Canada, the United States and Australia through dated law, work, family and archival records.
Start with the date and destination of each account. A legal change, an early journey and a family’s settlement are different stages of a migration history. Use the sources to investigate their connections without treating one route or experience as the pattern followed by every migrant.
An intentional selection
Punjabi settlement in Britain grew through education, work, family reunion and journeys through other countries. Local archives reveal a history older and more varied than one postwar arrival story.
Explore Punjabi migration to Canada, from British Columbia labour and immigration exclusion to community organising and later policy changes.
Follow Punjabi migration to the United States through Pacific Coast farming, political organising, citizenship struggles and changing laws.
Punjabi Australian history reaches from colonial hawking routes to contemporary professional and family migration. Named lives and community records reveal connections across South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia.
Follow archive evidence of families formed across migration routes, and learn why women’s lives and individual records matter.
How we use sources, explain uncertainty and correct mistakes.
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