Migrant Life Stories as Digital Heritage

Following the ambitions of international and national policy makers to digitalize cultural heritage sector, a growing research field that deals with digitalization has emerged. However, it been argued too much focus placed on technology information issues how achieve administrative effectiveness preservation taken precedence over studies different actors’ engagement, participation access heritage. Previous have also tended problematize “hows” rather than “whys” processes associated digital digitalization. In addition, shown collections documenting minorities marginalized groups excluded from strategies concerning Therefore, aim this article is investigate why under what conditions about migrants initiated, created curated. We study motives roles stakeholders in digitization patrimonialization one collection containing life stories migrants. Furthermore, we understand not only as decision makers, owners or managers, but any person organization feels affected by whatever happens object piece defined Consequently, central element methodology was interviews conducted crucial actors relation their engagements studied collection. During interviews, paid specific attention involved important them digitized.