Museums and migration history, memory and politics / [electronic resource] : edited by Laurence Gourievidis. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routlege, 2014. - 1 online resource (xiii, 263 p.) : ill., maps. - Museum meanings .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Representing migration in museums : history, diversity and the politics of memory / Laurence Gourievidis -- 2. City museums in a transcultural Europe / Francesca Lanz -- 3. Returning to racism : new challenges for museums and citizenship / Kylie Message -- 4. 'Whose cake is it anyway?' : museums, civil society and the changing reality of public engagement / Bernadette Lynch -- 5. Immigration : politics, rhetoric and participatory practices in Italian museums / Anna Chiara Cimoli -- 6. World in the East End at the V&A Museum of Childhood / Eithne Nightingale -- 7. The museum in a multicultural setting : the case of Malmo museums / Christina Johansson -- 8. The Ulster American Folk Park and heritage diversity in Northern Ireland / Karine Bigand -- 9. A museum of our own / Susan Ashley -- 10. Identification, hybridization and authentication : representing the heritage of migrants in four cultural institutions of Sucre, Bolivia / Tamara Glas -- 11. The migrant and the museum : place and representation in Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- 12. The recognition of migrations in the construction of Catalan national identity : representations of the history of migrations and cultural diversity in Catalan museums, 1980-2010 / Fabien Van Geert -- 13. Migration history and nation-building : the role of museums and memorials in post-devolution Wales / Marco Giudici -- 14. Migration exhibitions and the question of identity : reflections on the history of the representation of migration in Australian museums, 1986-2011 / Mary Hutchison and Andrea Witcomb -- 15. Heritage and the reframing of Japan's national narrative of Hokkaido : negotiating identity in migration history / Julie Higashi.

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Emigration and immigration--History--Museums.
Immigrants--History--Museums.
Museum exhibits.
Museums--Social aspects.