Archival representations of immigration and ethnicity in North American history: from the ethnicization of archives to the archivization of ethnicity

Daniel, Dominique

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“…Communities develop their own internal hierarchies, for that matter (Bak and Chen, 2014). As a result, community participation ipso facto renders collections “either open to deliberate manipulation by ethnic group members or susceptible to the involuntary bias of self-selection, as specific aspects or factions of ethnic communities may get overrepresented” (Daniel, 2014, p. 195).…”

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The information work of community archives: a systematic literature review

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2020

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PurposeThis paper scrutinizes the scholarship on community archives' information work. Community archives and archiving projects represent unprecedentedly democratic venues for information work centering on essential documentary concepts such as custody, collection development and appraisal, processing, arrangement and description, organization, representation and naming, collaboration, resource generation and allocation, activism and social justice, preservation, reuse, and sustainability.Design/methodology/approachUnearthed through databases searches, citation chaining, and browsing, sources examined include peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters published in the English language between 1985 and 2018.FindingsThe literature on community archives’ information work shows considerable geographical (six continents), topical, and (inter)disciplinary variety. This paper first explores scholars' efforts to define both community and community archives. Second, it unpacks the ways in which community archives include new stakeholders and new record types and formats even as they leverage alternative archival principles and practices. Third, it discusses community archives as political venues for empowerment, activism, and social justice work. Fourth, this paper delves into the benefits and challenges of partnerships and collaborations with mainstream institutions. Fifth, it documents the obstacles community archives face: not only tensions within and among communities, but also sustainability concerns. Finally, it sets forth six directions for future research.Originality/valueThis paper is the first systematic review of the community archives literature.

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“…En del av dessa studier har påvisat metodernas ursprung, avsikter, möjligheter och problem (Hagström & Marander-Eklund, 2005;Nilsson, 1996;Nilsson, Waldetoft & Westergren, 2003;Skott, 2008;Österman, 1991). Dessutom finns det en del etnologiska och historiska studier om hur museer och arkivinstitutioner har arbetat med dokumentation och insamling av erfarenheter av migration och kulturmöten (Axelsson, 2009;Daniel, 2014;Klein, 2006;Magnusson, 2006;Snellman, 2010). Några av dessa tidigare studier har påvisat hur minnesinstitutioner traditionellt har varit aktörer som bidragit till att skapa nationella berättelser och identiteter.…”

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“…Vår studie har synliggjort hur en minnesinstitution som Nordiska museet bidrar till att skapa och reproducera nationella berättelser och kollektiva minnen om migrationserfarenheter i det mångkulturella svenska samhället. I så motto förstärker studien andra studiers liknande resultat (Daniel, 2014;Johansson, 2015;Levitt, 2015). Vi menar dock att kollektiva minnen och tysta berättelser från Nordiska museets samlingar om och med etniska minoriteter eller personer som kategoriserats som migranter är viktiga att dekonstruera.…”

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“…Därigenom kan vi synliggöra antaganden och konstruktioner om Sverige, svenskhet, migration, invandrare och mångkulturalism som tas för givna och som museet förutsätter att berättare, arkivbesökare och forskare delar. Det är antaganden och konstruktioner som bitvis fungerar etniskt exklusivt och inte inkluderar viktiga erfarenheter och referensramar för personer med utländsk bakgrund eller med minoritetsbakgrund (jfr Daniel, 2014;Shilton & Srinivasan, 2007). Studien visar också att sociala kategorier och positioner som omger insamlingen och arkiveringen av berättade migrationserfarenheter inte är givna och fasta utan snarare relativa och konstruerade under vissa specifika sociala, historiska och institutionella omständigheter.…”

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Att minnas migrationen Intersektionella perspektiv på Nordiska museets insamlingar och urval av invandrares berättelser

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2017

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Remembering the migration. Intersectional perspectives on the Nordic Museum’s collections and selections of immigrant narratives e Swedish self-image has been transformed in recent decades from the self-image of a homogeneous country with immigrants to a self-perception of a multicultural society. In this article we investigate how memory institutions contribute to constructing and dissolving the boundaries of the Swedish community by including or excluding immigrants in the constructions of a national self-perception. e ongoing collection ”Remembering the Migration” at the Nordic Museum constitutes the empi- rical case study. e current collection and previous collections of different immigrant narratives at the museum are examples of documentation of subjective experiences and interpretations of the mul- ticultural society in Sweden against a background of increased migration in the postwar period. Our analysis concludes that the collection, ”Remembering the Migration” has an including per- spective. ere is an outspoken objective to incorporate the immigrants’ stories about migration in the common historiography and the national cultural heritage in multicultural Sweden. However, our study also shows that the questionnaire used in the collection lacks questions about experiences of discrimination or racism and thereby contributes to recreating a tacit narrative about Sweden as an inclusive and non-racist country or nation. is self-perception is also generated at the website of the Museum, where a selection of 17 collected narratives are published. In general none of these stories tell about experiences of racism or discrimination. On the contrary, most narrators in these narratives position themselves as well-included in Swedish society, mostly through their personal efforts of hard work and/or ambitious studies. However, our study indicates that this including, multicultural and non-racist self-perception is questioned and negotiated by some people who submitted their life stories and rather reveals that Sweden is characterized by, and has previously been characterized by, both inclusion and exclusion in relation to migrants. Furthermore our ana- lysis of the published excerpts from the life stories reveals that exclusion could also be experienced from gender and class positions as well as in some cases also on the basis of ethnicity.

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“…It is best read in conjunction with Dominique Daniel's recent article, which surveys the development of ethnic and immigration archives in the two countries since the 1950s. 3 The thought-provoking essays in the volume address a wide range of relevant issues about the importance of archives for marginalized communities (whether defined by ethnicity, migration, or race) and the challenges they grapple with. The volume almost calls for the creation of a companion discussion forum,…”

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Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada. Edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi. [Review]

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Archival representations of immigration and ethnicity in North American history: from the ethnicization of archives to the archivization of ethnicity

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

The information work of community archives: a systematic literature review

The information work of community archives: a systematic literature review

Att minnas migrationen Intersektionella perspektiv på Nordiska museets insamlingar och urval av invandrares berättelser

Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada. Edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi. [Review]

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