Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

GHI Pacific Office at UC Berkeley

USA

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Sarah Beringer

Head of Strategy & Communications

USA

| Environment

| Political Culture

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Anna Corsten

Research Fellow

Germany

| experts

| forced migration

| political culture

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Lilly Maier

Doctoral Candidate

Germany

| Archive and Memory

| Young Migrants

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Marcia C. Schenck

Professor

Germany

| Labor

| Political Culture

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Antonio Romero

Doctoral Researcher

Germany

| class/race/gender

| material culture

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Recent Features

Using the example of a group of refugees from Czechoslovakia in Canada during World War II, the author analyzes knowledge transfers through migration and their limitations in changing political and economic environments.

Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s

Jul 17, 2025

Swen Steinberg

Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives.

Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political

Jun 20, 2025

Amelie Harbisch

From an anthropological perspective, Santisteban analyzes the collective memories about the displacements of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people (Patagonia) in the territory before and during the imposition of state borders and the nation-state.

Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains

Apr 14, 2025

Kaia Santisteban

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