Migrant
Knowledge

Network and blog for scholarship at the intersection of migration and knowledge studies

Meet our Network

Benjamin Hein

Assistant Professor

USA

| Labor

| Political Culture

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Ecem Nazlı Üçok

Lecturer

Czech Republic

| class/race/gender

| identity and belonging

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Martin Bemmann

Lecturer

Germany

| environment

| experts

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Daniel Bessner

Assistant Professor

USA

| experts

| forced migration

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Dagmar Ellerbrock

Professor

Germany

| class/race/gender

| material culture

| political culture

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German Historical Institute Washington

USA

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Recent Features

Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to community strategies while challenging gender and socio-environmental inequalities.

Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice

Mar 7, 2025

María Belén López

Discusses the way Ecuadorian elites presented themselves at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the world, focusing on strategies to attract European and American migrants and minimize the perception of Indigenous populations and disease.

Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

Jan 3, 2025

Erika Rosado Valencia

Describes the subgroup of migrants called “third culture kids,” the adjustments they go through, and some knowledge-based implications.

Third Cultures—The (Cursed) Gold of Migrants?

Dec 16, 2024

Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld

Migrant Knowledge

Writing knowledge into the history of migration
and migration into the history of knowledge

Notices and Tips

Mirrors a call for papers for a conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge from 8-10 October, 2025.

The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Feb 24, 2025

Roundup of calls for papers, submissions, conference reports, new publications relevant to Migrant Knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 19

May 29, 2024

Call for proposals from the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies for an online source portal called "History of the German-Jewish Diaspora"

Call for Proposals: Online Source Portal ‘History of the German-Jewish Diaspora’

Jan 24, 2024