이주민과 다문화주의 ; 트랜스내셔널 공간으로서 이민박물관(Migration Museum) = Featured Articles : Migration Museum as a Transnational Space

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This paper attempts to analyse migration museum representing migrant`s culture and remembrance. The establishment and development of migration museums are the worldwide phenomenon. The first initiator was the Ellise Island Immigration Museum that opened in 1990. The former gateway to America for 12 million european immigrants from 1892-1954 became one of the most famous tourist attractions in New York. This success led to the current trend of the immigration museums in the countries of immigration. The immigration museums, above all the Ellise Island Immigration Museum became the place for a new patriotism representing the multicultural nation identity in the United States. Unlike the typical immigration countries, there is still no immigration museum in Germany, although it has relatively long history of immigration. But a small group of migrants had founded a self- organization that should preserve the heritage of immigrants and present his history of migration as a part of German History, which led to a migrant initiative for the establishment of a migration museum in Germany, the Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany (Domit,. Domit tried to present the history of immigrants through the exhibitions. The exhibitions for the history of immigrants needed for close cooperation between immigrants and native Germans, which means a transnational progress with interaction and interconnection. The first cooperation was the exhibition Homeland Abroad. A history of immigration from Turkey that happened in 1998 at the Ruhrland Museum in Essen. This presented the history of turkish migrants from the labour recruitment agreement in 1961 to the settlement of the first generation in the early 1980s. The highlight of the transnational cooperation was the project migration that presented a grant exhibition for the history of German labour migration on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the recruitment-contract between Italy and Germany on December 20th, 2005. Despite many exhibitions the national historical narrative hinders still the founding of the Migration Museum in Germany. The migrant initiative failed also to overcome the national historical narrative and to present a transnational perspective, because they would present his immigration history as a part of German history. is it impossible then to establish the museum as a transnational space that means cultural connection and interaction, thus hybridity? The new founded immigrations museum still remain as the institution that produces a new national identity for the integration. The migration museum as a movement is just strong influenced by the national historical narrative. Nevertheless migration museum as a transnational space is a future vision that the initiative for founding the migration museum must not lose.