The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race

IF 2 1区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal of Heritage Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 DOI:10.1080/13527258.2023.2183884

D. Byrne

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Currently, heritage practice brings a nation-centric lens to the heritage of migration, privileging narratives of arrival and settlement over narratives of return, circulatory transnational flows, and cross-border connectivity. Drawing on the case of Chinese migration to Australia in the period from the 1840s to the 1940s, the ‘heritage corridor’ concept is proposed here as an aid in conceptualising a heritage that escapes the nation-state frame of reference. The aspirational modernity of Chinese migrants in this period led them to construct new houses, schools, and infrastructure in their home villages in China using money earned in Australia, even though in Australia at this time Chinese migrants were characterised as premodern misfits by a white majority that saw itself as modern and progressive. In relegating Chinese migrants to the past, white Australia conferred on them a state of non-belonging that I argue is perpetuated in the country’s heritage system by a form of structural racism which, embedded in site listing processes, minimises the visibility of Chinese Australians in the heritage record.

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移民遗产走廊:跨国主义、现代性和种族

目前，遗产实践以国家为中心的视角看待移民遗产，将抵达和定居的叙述置于回归、循环跨国流动和跨境连通性的叙述之上。借鉴19世纪40年代至40年代中国移民澳大利亚的案例，本文提出了“遗产走廊”的概念，作为对逃避民族国家参考框架的遗产概念化的辅助。在这一时期，中国移民的理想现代性促使他们用在澳大利亚赚来的钱在中国的家乡建造新的房屋、学校和基础设施，尽管当时在澳大利亚，中国移民被认为是前现代的不适应者，被大多数白人认为自己是现代和进步的。在把中国移民贬为过去的过程中，澳大利亚白人赋予了他们一种不属于自己的状态，我认为，这种状态是通过一种结构性种族主义在该国的遗产体系中延续下来的，这种种族主义嵌入在遗址列出过程中，最大限度地降低了华裔澳大利亚人在遗产记录中的知名度。

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International Journal of Heritage Studies Multiple-

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4.10

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Heritage Studies ( IJHS ) is the interdisciplinary academic, refereed journal for scholars and practitioners with a common interest in heritage. The Journal encourages debate over the nature and meaning of heritage as well as its links to memory, identities and place. Articles may include issues emerging from Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, History, Tourism Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Memory Studies, Cultural Geography, Law, Cultural Studies, and Interpretation and Design.