Global Mobilities: Refugee, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives – Amy K. Levin (Ed.)

Global Mobilities: Refugee, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives – Amy K. Levin (Ed.)

Editor: Amy K. Levin

Publisher: Routledge

Print Length: 522 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / History, Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies, Non-Fiction / Social Science, Policy & Practice

Area: Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Ghana, Greece, Norway, Paris, The United Kingdom (UK), The United States of America (USA)

Topic: Archive, Diaspora, Exile & Exodus, Gender, History, Language, Mobility & Immobility, Museum & Heritage

Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority populations. Emphasizing the importance of cross-cultural knowledge and exchange, global case studies examine the conflicts inherent in such efforts, considering key issues such as whether to focus on origins or destinations, as well as whether assimilation, integration, or an entirely new model would be the most effective approach. This collection provides an insight into diverse perspectives, not only of museum practitioners and scholars, but also the voices of artists, visitors, undocumented immigrants, and other members of source communities. Global Mobilities is an often provocative and thought-inspiring resource which offers a comprehensive overview of the field for those interested in understanding its complexities.

List of illustrations 
Notes on contributors 
Acknowledgments


1 Introduction: Global Mobilities – AMY K. LEVIN
PART I
Frameworks: theory, practice, and policy 
2 Museums, refugees, and collaborative social transformation – WILLIAM WESTERMAN
3 European museums in an age of migrations: twelve propositions for twenty-first-century museums – LUCA BASSO PERESSUT AND ELENA MONTANARI


PART II
Histories of exiles, refugees, and expatriates 
4 Forgotten by history: refugees, historians, and museums in Britain – PHILIP MARFLEET
5 Exhibiting fraught histories of migrations: museums in Elmina, Ghana – NEELIMA JEYCHANDRAN

6 Migration histories, the past, and the politics of memory at Robben Island Museum – UGOCHUKWU-SMOOTH C. NZEWI
7 “A Safeguard Against Oblivion”: memorializing French Algeria in the Centre de Documentation des Français d’Algérie – LAURA JEANNE SIMS

PART III
Museums interpret emigration and immigration 
8 Polish history, the Polish diaspora, and the Emigration Museum in Gdynia – MARCIN SZERLE
9 The Polish Museum of America: shaping
cultural identity – ROSA M. CABRERA
10 Displaying the diversity of community history at Hackney Museum – AMY K. LEVIN
11 Restoring and utilizing the past: the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum – JENNIFER E. MICHAELS

PART IV
Becoming a minority: identities and new populations 
12 Visitors’ opinions on the inclusion of migrants in museum exhibitions: migrant and non-migrant communities in Greece – ALEXANDRA BOUNIA
13 Occupying the Immigration Museum: the Sans Papiers of Paris at the site of their national representation – ROBIN OSTOW

14 Longing and belonging: the representation of immigrant communities in Canadian museums – ELISE WEINSTEIN DINTSMAN
15 Settling In: cross-cultural engagement at the Oregon Jewish Museum – JUDITH MARGLES

PART V
Archives, digital collections, and libraries 
16 Expanding the boundaries of history: the Expatriate
Archive Centre – PETA CHOW, MARIJKE HUISMAN, AND
SARAH BRINGHURST FAMILIA
17 Beyond museums: multicultural material heritage archives in Australia – HELEN LIGHT
18 Photo Seeks Family: digitization, visual repatriation, and performative memory work – RANDI MARSELIS
19 Libraries and museums in Norway: promoting integration in the land of gender equality – JANA SVERDLJUK

PART VI
Case Studies 
US borders and borderlands
20 The “Isle of Home” is always on your mind: subjectivity and space at Ellis Island Immigration Museum – JOANNE MADDERN
21 Residues of border control – SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE AND INÉS VALDEZ

Artists and Global Mobility
22 California modernism, European émigré artists, and the summer sessions at Mills College in Oakland, California – ISABEL WÜNSCHE
23 Thank you for coming: notes on labels, language, and living a life – MICHAEL PETRY
24 “I will freely circulate in the intermediate space”: Cahun and Moore’s resistance to gender and national
boundaries – AMY K. LEVIN
25 Conclusion: tomorrow’s heritage of migration – AMY K. LEVIN

Index 

Amy K. Levin is Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of English. Levin has taught classes in women’s literature, Women’s Studies, Museum Studies, nineteenth-century British literature, and African-American literature. Levin is also chair of the Committee on Multicultural Education Curriculum Transformation and active on the President’s Commission on the Status of Women. She has served as chair of the internal strategic planning committee of the National Women’s Studies Association as well.

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