As a result of the climate change around 1900, the economy of the Greenlanders increasingly relied on fishing and fishing industry. The project will concentrate on colonial history, the migrations in South Greenland and the changing of society in that region during the first half of the 20th.. The project will contribute with new knowledge on the Greenland history and new perspectives to the Danish colonial history.

Coordinator:

Einar Lund Jensen

Other participants:

Students from Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk og Department of eskimology, University of Copenhagen.

The project is running from 2009 until 2012