Investigates how the representation of foreigners in museum exhibitions on immigrant history is seen by the audience, and what it reveals about the national self
Sheds light on how museum staff, visitors, academics, journalists and politicians publicly exhibit images of immigrants
Combines conversation analysis, discourse analysis and ethnography to analyse large amounts of exhibition data in different institutional contexts

Autorentext
Yannik Porsché is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology department of the Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany. His research combines discourse analysis and ethnography, and focuses on social interactions in institutional work contexts. He recently published a book on police work in crime prevention - a study that was conducted at the Goethe-University Frankfurt and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Inhalt
1: Introduction: Staging public representations in the Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, the Deutsches Historisches Museum, and the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum.- 2: Museums, the public, and immigration.- 3: Microsociological Contextualisation Analysis.- 4: Epistemic production behind the museum scenes in France and Germany.- 5: Public interactions on the museum stages.- 6: Conclusion: Exhibiting immigrants-exposing the public.