ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how human migration in the modern period has been remembered in different national contexts, focusing on the politics surrounding recent efforts to remember or forget aspects of various nations’ migratory pasts in Europe, North America and Australasia. Whose pasts should be remembered? Which journeys, departures and arrivals should be celebrated, and which should be mourned? By exploring a range of museums and exhibitions, memorials and monuments, this chapter explains how these questions have shaped the construction of public and community memories of migration.
