Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Monuments in the Context of Migration: An Introduction

   • Sabine Marschall

   Pages 1-27

3. The Production and Contestation of Public Memory Around Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Memorializing Migration: Immigrant Patronage, Public Memory and the Syrian Centennial Monument to Argentina (1910)

      • Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf

      Pages 31-60

   3. ‘Columbus Might Be Dwarfed to Obscurity’: Italian Americans’ Engagement with Columbus Monuments in a Time of Decolonization

      • Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra

      Pages 61-93

   4. Long-Distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada

      • Per A. Rudling

      Pages 95-126

   5. Political and Social Contestation in the Memorialization of ‘Comfort Women’

      • Mary M. McCarthy

      Pages 127-156

   6. Contested Memory in an Eponymous City: The Robert Towns Statue in Townsville, Australia

      • Rodney Sullivan, Robin Sullivan

      Pages 157-186

4. Refugees, Informal Memorials and the Dissolution of the Monument

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Tracing Paths of Transcultural Memory: The Usage of Monuments in Guided Tours by Refugees

      • Michal Huss

      Pages 189-217

   3. From Here because from Abroad? Migrants and Grassroots Memorials in Paris in the Aftermath of 13 November 2015

      • Sarah Gensburger, Gérôme Truc

      Pages 219-242

   4. Walter Benjamin in Fortress Europe: Refugees and the Ethics of Memory in an (Ex)Border Town

      • Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro

      Pages 243-265

   5. Augmented Reality: Memorializing Deaths of Migrants Along the US-Mexico Border

      • Jessica Auchter

      Pages 267-291

   6. Synthesis and Conclusions

      • Sabine Marschall

      Pages 293-315

5. Back Matter

   Pages 317-326

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This book explores the border-transcending dimensions of public remembering by focussing on the triangular relationship between memory, monuments and migration. Framed by an introduction and conclusion, nine case studies located in diverse social and geo-political settings feature topical debates and contestation around monuments, statues and memorials erected by migrants or in memory of migrants, refugees and diasporas in host country societies. Written from different disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, art history, cultural studies and political science, the chapters consider displaced people as new, originally unintended audiences who bring transnational and transcultural perspectives to old monuments in host cities. In addition, migrants and diasporic communities are explored as ‘agents of memory’, who produce collective memory in tense environments of intra- and inter-group negotiation or outright hostility at the national and transnational level. The research is conceptually anchored in memory studies, notably transnational memory, multidirectional memory and other concepts emerging from memory studies’ recent ‘transcultural turn’.

• Memory
• Migration
• Migrants
• Displacement
• Identity
• Monuments

• School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  Sabine Marschall

Sabine Marschall is Professor in Cultural and Heritage Tourism at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research has explored various aspects of cultural heritage and commemorative monuments. More recently, she has focused on the tourism-migration nexus and the role of memory in migration and travel.

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