How do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the
participants? What happens during these projects and what is left of them afterwards? Based on
interviews with museum practitioners facilitators and project participants Susanne Boersma
brings together unique insights into museum work with forced migrants. Her study of
participatory projects in Germany the Netherlands and the UK reveals museums' limiting
infrastructures the shortcomings of their ethical frameworks and the problems of addressing
forced migrants as 'communities'. Outlining the diverging objectives experiences and outcomes
of participatory projects she suggests how these might be united in practice.
