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Robin Ostow
Robin Ostow teaches in the Sociology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on national museums, Jewish museums and on immigration museums in Europe, the Americas and Australia. Her work has focused on these museums’ social histories, their displays and their relations with the communities around them. Her book, (Re)Visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2008. Her article ‘Creating a Bavarian space for rapprochement: The Jewish Museum Munich’ appeared in Space & Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History (Berghahn 2017). And her chapter ‘Occupying the immigration museum: The Sans Papiers of Paris at the site of their national representation’ was published in Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles and Immigrants in Museums and Archives (Routledge 2017). She is currently writing a comparative ethnography of six human rights museums on four continents. This article on the Maison des Exclaves in Senegal will be one of the chapters.