Rooted in two Countries? Migrant Heritage, emplacement and the ‘Canon van Nederland’.

Rooted in two Countries? Migrant Heritage, emplacement and the ‘Canon van Nederland’. In the cultural heritage sector theorizing emplacement is considered to be vital for identity: “people need to anchor there identity concretely to a location (emplacement)” (Grever&Van Boxtel, 2014). The question is up to what extent this can also be true for migrants, whose roots are in two different places and who have a physical distance with regards to their motherland and part of their memories. In a study on ‘national histories’ as a incentive for identification and (private and collective) identiti... Mehr ...