%0 Journal Article
%T Transnational archives: the Canadian case
%A Julia Creet
%J Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
%D 2011
%I Co-Action Publishing
%R 10.3402/jac.v3i0.7216
%X This paper is a brief overview of the concept of the transnational archive as a counterpoint to the idea that a national archive is necessarily a locus of a static idea of nation. The Canadian national archives is used as a case study of an archives that was transnational in its inception, and one that has continued to change in its mandate and materials as a response to patterns in migration and changing notions of multiculturalism as a Canadian federal policy. It introduces the most recent formation of the transnational archive and its denizens: the genealogical archive inhabited by family historians.
%K transnational archives
%K Canadian national archives
%K library and archives Canada
%K ethnic archives
%K genealogy
%K memory and migration
%U http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/7216/8545