This article examines how the state imagines and represents migration. Using the Merseyside Maritime Museum as a frame, it provides key insights into how perspectives of time and particular constructions of colonial history have contributed to a system of immigration law that is characterised by a policy of institutional forgetting.

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博物馆与边界：默西塞德郡海事博物馆与移民和难民的建设

本文考察了国家如何想象和代表移民。以默西塞德郡海事博物馆为框架，它提供了关于时间视角和殖民历史的特定结构如何促成以制度遗忘政策为特征的移民法体系的关键见解。