Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Robin Buller

Research Fellow

USA

| identity and belonging

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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

Assistant Professor

Canada

| Environment

| Labor

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Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Associate Professor

USA

| identity and belonging

| transit

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Elisabeth Engel

Research Fellow

USA

| class/race/gender

| political culture

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Wim Coudenys

Professor for Russian History and Culture

Belgium

| archive and memory

| translation

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Tobias Brinkmann

Associate Professor

USA

| archive and memory

| religion

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Recent Features

Philipp Strobl discusses his new book on displaced knowledge of Austrian refugees in Australia.

Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book

Aug 28, 2025

Philipp Strobl
Nikolaus Hagen

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

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