Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Anna Corsten

Doctoral Candidate

Germany

| experts

| forced migration

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Matthias Springborn

Research Assistant

Germany

| forced migration

| transit

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Martin Bemmann

Lecturer

Germany

| environment

| experts

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Kai Johann Willms

Doctoral Candidate

Germany

| experts

| identity and belonging

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Nicholas Underwood

Postdoctoral Fellow

USA

| archive and memory

| religion

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Onur Erdur

Assistant Professor

Germany

| experts

| political culture

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Recent Articles

Julie Weise asks how migrants responded to state-driven mandates to control and shape labor migration in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

In Sickness and in Health: Migrant Citizenships in the Postwar Years

Feb 7, 2020

Julie M. Weise

Andrea Wiegeshoff explorers the interactions of different ways of knowing at the moment of immigration using the 1914 example of Wong Kum Wo in Honolulu.

Clashing Ways of Knowing at the Moment of Immigration

Dec 16, 2019

Andrea Wiegeshoff

The work of both Hans Rosenberg and Raul Hilberg was initially marginalized, but later entered the mainstream of German historiography. Why? What role did migration play in their work and its reception?

Marginalized Migrant Knowledge: The Reception of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in West Germany after 1945

Nov 6, 2019

Anna Corsten

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

Workshop report for the Third Annual Bucerius Young Scholar Forum, held at the GHI Pacific Regional Office at Berkeley in October 2019.