NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor

Please join us at Unity Square on July 10th to participate in our community dialogue exploring and reflecting on the past and present roles and stories around Migration and Labor in New Brunswick and Central New Jersey. The dialogue will be led by facilitators Angel Fuentes Pesquera and Michelle Gil, accompanied by artists Jonathan Yubi, Chat Travieso, and Natalie Romero-Marx.

Please join us at Sacred Heart Church on August 17th to participate in our community dialogue exploring and reflecting on the past and present roles and stories around Migration and Labor in New Brunswick and Central New Jersey.

The dialogue will be led by facilitator Mitzy Gonzalez and Jennifer Herrera, accompanied by artist Jonathan Yubi.

Image credits: Jonathan Yubi

Please join us with New Brunswick Tomorrow at coLAB Arts on July 30th to participate in our community dialogue exploring and reflecting on the past and present roles and stories around Migration and Labor in New Brunswick and Central New Jersey.

The dialogue will be led by facilitator Diana Diaz Tapia, accompanied by artist Jonathan Yubi.

Please join us at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church on June 17th to participate in our community dialogue exploring and reflecting on the past and present roles and stories around Migration and Labor in New Brunswick and Central New Jersey.

The dialogue will be led by facilitators Jennifer Herrera and Mitzy Gonzalez, accompanied by artists Jonathan Yubi, Chat Travieso, Natalie Romero-Marx, Karen Alvarado, John M. Meyer, Cristina Marte, Alicia Saadi and Laura de la Garza Noble.

Please join us at Unity Square on May 29th to participate in our community dialogue exploring and reflecting on the past and present roles and stories around Migration and Labor in New Brunswick and Central New Jersey.

The dialogue will be led by facilitators Michelle Gil and Angel Fuentes Pesquera, accompanied by artists Jonathan Yubi, Chat Travieso, David Seamon, John M. Meyer, Karen Alvarado, and Ingrid Morales.

Please join us at coLAB Arts on May 5th to participate in our community dialogue exploring and reflecting on the past and present roles and stories around Migration and Labor in New Brunswick and Central New Jersey. The dialogue will be led by facilitator Diana Diaz Tapia from New Brunswick Tomorrow, accompanied by artists John M. Meyer, David Seamon, and Natalie Romero-Marx.

This dialogue focuses on the history of Asian immigration to North Jersey, from the Chinese laborers recruited to work in the Passaic Steam Laundry in Belleville, in the 1870s, to the Indian and Korean immigrants who remade Hudson and Bergen counties at the end of the twentieth century. This dialogue will look at the livelihoods that Asian immigrants made in North Jersey, and the resistance and solidarity they demonstrated in asserting their rights as residents of the state.

Image credits: Photo Courtesy of the Corky Lee Estate.

Credits: Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo/Talking Eyes

Join NJMML and the American Labor Museum for a conversation about labor rights and organizing.

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Image credits: “Strike and Solidarity,” National Silk Dye Company, Paterson, NJ, American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark Collection, New Jersey Digital Highway.

Join us for a public dialogue about the Arab labor and businesses that helped build Paterson from the 19th Century to the present.

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The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University, in partnership with the Monuments to Migration and Labor, welcomes community stakeholders for a dialogue about the Great Migration (1910-1970) where Black Americans moved to Atlantic City seeking economic opportunities in its booming tourism industry, finding jobs in hospitality, transportation, and entertainment. As they settled, they established tight-knit communities, such as the Northside, which fostered Black-owned businesses, schools, and cultural institutions. You are invited to join and contribute to a public conversation about immigrant labor, past and present, and its ongoing role in the area’s tourism industry.

Join us at the Roebling Museum for a community dialogue exploring the history of labor, immigration, and worker experiences in New Jersey. After hearing about what it was like to live and work in Roebling while the steel mill was operating, and the strike that took place at the company in 1941, we will discuss the challenges faced by laborers today, and what immigrant workers are doing to organize in the present.

In 1944, Seabrook Farms began recruiting incarcerated Japanese Americans from War Relocation Authority camps, through a federal resettlement program. This dialogue explores Japanese American experiences as workers at Seabrook Farms, and what they encountered on plant assembly lines, and in the many other positions they came to occupy. Participants in the dialogue will have the opportunity to discuss agricultural and food processing work in South Jersey more generally, and what these industries have meant to migrants and workers in the region.

Bayshore Center at Bivalve welcomes community members for a discussion about migrant and immigrant laborers and their families who worked in the oyster houses and on the boats. You are invited to join and contribute to a public conversation about past African American migrant labor and today’s Latino immigrant labor, and the role that they have played in building and sustaining the oyster industry.

This dialogue explores the histories of Black laborers at Seabrook Farms, and the communities that migrant farmworkers – who came to New Jersey from the US South – formed. Participants will have the chance to learn about the history of seasonal farmworker migrations to New Jersey, past and present, life in Orchard Center, which began as a seasonal labor camp, and about the racial divisions of labor and housing that defined Seabrook Farms as a company town. Together, stakeholders will create art responses to delve deeper into these stories.

Join us for an exciting conversation with artists and community leaders to learn and share insights on the ever changing dynamics of immigration in our region. Explore versions of the “oldtimers vs. newcomers” story that have often been the basis for misperceptions and stereotypes surrounding new immigrants. Learn about the economic impact of immigrant labor, drawn from diverse sources, and the ways in which communities preserve their cultural heritage while adapting to the regional culture of South Jersey. Refreshments and soft drinks will be provided.

St. Stephan’s Grace Community Church and New Labor, in partnership with Monuments to Migration and Labor, welcome community stakeholders for a dialogue about Latin American immigrant labor. You are invited to join and contribute to a public conversation about immigrant labor, past and present, and the role that immigrant labor has played in building Newark and the region.

For more information, or to share the dialogue flyer, please click here.

Monuments to Migration and Labor invites you to participate in a public conversation about the migrant and immigrant labor, past and present, that built Paterson.

What aspects of this history are most valuable to share and commemorate now, in this challenging moment for immigrants everywhere?

Facilitators: Farhanna Sayegh, Tim Raphael
Community Artist: Samar Hussaini

For more information, or to share the dialogue flyer, please click here.