ABSTRACT
Whilst museums, have been theorized through the prism of different disciplinary practices and approaches, the representation of migration in museums in particular has recently become the locus of a fast-growing body of research and critical enquiry. The impact of public discourses and policies related to diversity on the way museums engage with migration and its history, in particular examining the resilience of the national paradigm. Museums are shown to be operating as mobilizing tools for nascent or rising nationalisms and for the integration, within the national narrative, first of regional differences, internal to nation-states, and more recently of cultural diversity related to immigration. A similar reassessment of the national museums cape in the mid-1990s in Sweden led to the opening, in 2004, of Gothenburg's Museum of World Culture (MWC), whose collection stemmed from former ethnographic and archaeological displays. In settler countries where immigration lies at the very heart of national identity.
