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1. Representing migration in museums: history, diversity and the politics of memory Laurence Gouriévidis Part 1: Museums and migration history: issues and challenges 2. Who is the city museum 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 Part 2: Engaging with cultural diversity: migration in museums 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 Malmö 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, hybridisation and authentication: representing the heritage of migrants in four cultural institutions of Sucre, Bolivia Tamara Glas Part 3: Migration history and national narratives in museum 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 (1980-2012) 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
