Gilberto Fernandes

I was asked to write a review of the digital exhibition The Human Cost of Food, curated by Ed Dunsworth and a team of undergraduate and graduate students at McGill University. This is a great example of public/active history about Canada’s temporary migrant worker program, its built-in cruelty, and the lives of those most affected by it. In my review, I contextualized it within the larger history of postwar migration history and how it relates to and differs from the European experience, including Portuguese.

You can read it here: https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/05/02/we-are-what-we-eat-a-review-of-the-human-cost-of-food-digital-exhibition/