Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Razak Khan

Research Fellow

Germany

| Experts

| Transit

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Stephanie Zloch

Research Fellow

Germany

| Identity and Belonging

| Young Migrants

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Simone Lässig

Professor

USA

| Religion

| Young Migrants

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Halyna Leontiy

Postdoctoral Fellow

Germany

| Identity and Belonging

| Transit

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Christina Philips

Research Fellow

China

| (cross) borders

| archive and memory

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Michelle Lynn Kahn

Assistant Professor

USA

| Class/Race/Gender

| Young Migrants

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Recent Features

Demonstrates how Chinese immigrants to Peru utilized their knowledge of its culture and aspirations in constructing the fountain to improve their standing.

The Chinese Fountain: Migrant Knowledge and World-Making in Early Twentieth-Century Peru

Sep 19, 2022

Nino Vallen

Frei discusses the knowledge prospective Jesuit missionaries sought to gain before applying, and knowledge missionaries provided back home.

Missionary FAQs: The Migration of Knowledge about and from Early Modern Jesuit Missions

Sep 2, 2022

Elisa Frei

Schütz shows how GDR officials' knowledge of violence against guest workers failed to change their perception of them or the nature of the country. Instead, they blamed the workers.

Violence against Migrants in the GDR and the Lack of Epistemic Impact

Aug 5, 2022

Johannes Schütz

Migrant Knowledge

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

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