Global Mobilities

Amy K. Levin was Chair of English at Northern Illinois University, USA, where she also directed the Women’s Studies Program and coordinated Museum Studies. She began a new career as an independent scholar in January 2016, researching and teaching on race, class, and gender in museums.

1 Introduction. Global Mobilities.



Part I: Frameworks: Theory, Practice, and Policy
2 Museums, Refugees, and Collaborative Social Transformation.
3 European Museums in an Age of Migrations: Twelve Propositions for Twenty-First Century Museums.



Part II: Histories of exiles, refugees, and expatriates
4 Forgotten by History: Refugees, Historians, and Museums in Britain.
5 Exhibiting Fraught Histories of Migrations: Museums in Elmina, Ghana.
6 Migration Histories, the Past, and the Politics of Memory at Robben Island.
7 “A Safeguard Against Oblivion”: Memorializing French Algeria in the Centre de
Documentation des Français d’Algérie.



Part III: Museums Interpret Emigration and Immigration
8 Polish History, the Polish Diaspora, and the Emigration Museum in Gdynia.
9 The Polish Museum of America: Shaping Cultural Identity.
10 Displaying the Diversity of Community History at Hackney Museum.
11 Restoring and Utilizing the Past: The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
12 Visitors’ Opinions on the Inclusion of Migrants in Museum Exhibitions: Migrant and
Non-Migrant Communities in Greece.
13 Occupying the Immigration Museum: The Sans Papiers of Paris at the Site of Their
National Representation.
14 Longing and Belonging: The Representation of Immigrant Communities in Canadian
Museums.
15 Settling In: Cross-Cultural Engagement at the Oregon Jewish Museum.



Part V: Archives, Digital Collections, and Libraries.
16 Expanding the Boundaries of History: The Expatriate Archive Centre.
17 Beyond Museums: Multicultural Material Heritage Archives in Australia.
18 “Photo Seeks Family”: Digitization, Visual Repatriation, and Performative Memory
Work.
19 Libraries and Museums in Norway: Promoting Integrat