Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Sandra Vacca

Historian and Curator

Germany

| archive and memory

| material culture

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Sören Urbansky

Research Fellow

USA

| Class/Race/Gender

| Transpacific

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Leslie Hernandez

Research Associate

Italy

| archive and memory

| young migrants

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Massimo Perinelli

Senior Advisor

Germany

| archive and memory

| political culture

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Hanna Haag

Lecturer and Research Fellow

Germany

| Archive and Memory

| Transit

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The Production of Knowledge on Migration

Research Group

Germany

| class/race/gender

| experts

| translation

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Recent Features

Interview with Swen Steinberg outlining key achievements of the blog and network Migrant Knowledge since its inception in 2019.

A Journey Worth Knowing About? Interview with Swen Steinberg about the Past Five Years of the Blog Migrant Knowledge

Oct 7, 2024

Viola Alianov-Rautenberg
Swen Steinberg

Presents testimonies of Nazi atrocities by witnesses who were interviewed by refugees in Sweden to show the epistemic value of emotions in analyses of knowledge circulation.

Suffering, Displacement, and the Circulation of Knowledge about Nazi Atrocities

Aug 27, 2024

Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Presents the arguments from Stielike's longer German work on the politics of knowledge production in Migration Studies, examining 3 distinct types of migration research.

The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

Jun 18, 2024

Laura Stielike

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

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

CfP for Mapping German Film Exile: A Transnational Perspective

CfP: Mapping German Film Exile: A Transnational Perspective

Jan 16, 2024