This collection is composed of the outputs of the Crossing the Borders project undertaken by the Wai Yin Society 2018-2019. The core of the collection is 20 oral history interviews undertaken with Manchester Cantonese speakers who migrated to the UK from Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Macau and Malaysia. The bulk of these interviews are in Cantonese. Topics in the interviews include naming of the interviewee, information about their family and ancestral homes, childhood, life prior to migration, reasons for migration, migration journeys, settling in the UK and finding a sense of belonging. The archive also documents other project outputs including the exhibition held at Manchester Art Gallery in July 2019, radio plays based on the oral history stories, project publication and a visual record of the project through photographs.
