Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement: Migrants and Monuments

1. Monuments in the Context of Migration: An Introduction.- 2. Forging Transnational Allegiance: Immigrant Patronage and the Syrian Centennial Monument of Buenos Aires in the Crafting of Arab-Argentine Identity.- 3. National Identities, Public Memories, and Italian Americans' Engagement with Christopher Columbus.- 4. Long-distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada.- 5. Political and Social Contestation in the Memorialization of Comfort Women in the United States.- 6. Contested Memory in an Eponymous City: The Robert Towns Statue in Townsville, Australia.- 7. Tracing Paths of Transcultural Memory: The Usage of Monuments in Guided Tours by Refugees.- 8. From here because from abroad. Migrants and grassroots memorials in Paris (2015-2017).- 9. Walter Benjamin in Fortress Europe: refugees and the ethics of memory in an (ex)border town.- 10. Virtual and Augmented Reality: Memorializing Deaths of Migrants Along the US-Mexico Border.- 11. Synthesis and Conclusions.