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    Representing migration in museums ‘From Below’: The case of DOMiD as a migration museum in Germany
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2023-07-20) Mollaer, Esra Can; 0000-0001-6986-3777
    The role and significance of museums in shaping modern society, producing knowledge, and establishing cultural hierarchies have long occupied the research agendas of social theory. With respect to the relations of power and domination they generate, the politics of representation in museums have been extensively discussed in the literature. In this regard, the role of museums in the construction of national narratives and national identities is particularly emphasized. Given the rising significance of migration movements in shaping social transformation and political agendas, it is widely argued that migration has not only triggered challenges to museum narratives that promote singular and cohesive national identities, but has also led to the very representation of migration through migration museums. Critically addressing the shifting roles of museums along the axis of debates around ‘new museology’, this study explores how DOMiD, ‘Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany’, founded by a group of migrants from Turkey in 1992 and considered one of the pioneering examples in its field, contests the history of migration through its museum practices. Drawing on this framework, this article examines the extent to which DOMiD's museum practices and its museum representations of migration are conceived through a ‘from below’ approach (Clifford, 1997; Sandell, 2007) and the extent to which they bear the potentials of the notion of 'contact zone' (Clifford, 1997)