Museums, the Media and Refugees : : Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion / / Katherine Goodnow, Jack Lohman, Philip Marfleet.

Across countries and time, asylum-seekers and refugees have been represented in a variety of ways. In some representations they appear negatively, as dangers threatening to ‘over-run’ a country or a region with ‘floods’ of incompatible strangers. In others, the same people are portrayed positively,...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Museums and Diversity ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • How Do We Sing Our Song in a Strange Land? Belonging: Voices of London’s Refugees in the Museum of London
  • Forgotten by History: Refugees, Historians and Museums in Britain
  • SECTION ONE Traditional Methods and New Moves: Migrant and Refugee Exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand
  • SECTION TWO Framing Refugees: Context and Narratives in Other Media
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Overview
  • CHAPTER 2 Conceptual Proposals and Analytic Steps
  • CHAPTER 3 Specifying Contexts: Significant Features
  • CHAPTER 4 The Tampa and Initial Framing
  • CHAPTER 5 Hardening and Sustaining a Frame
  • CHAPTER 6 One Represention Unravelled, Another Sustained
  • CHAPTER 7 Dissent: Challenges Focused on Truth and Law
  • CHAPTER 8 Points of Change: From Concerns for Individuals to Concerns for Groups
  • CHAPTER 9 Change: From Individuals to Groups to Policies
  • CHAPTER 10 Extensions: Other Countries, Continuing Questions
  • Bibliography