Migrant
Knowledge

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

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Meet our Network
Philipp Eigenmann
Senior Teaching and Research Assistant
Switzerland
| political culture
| young migrants
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Charlotte Mueller
Ph.D. Candidate
Netherlands
| experts
| labor
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Kai Johann Willms
Doctoral Candidate
Germany
| experts
| identity and belonging
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Tobias Brinkmann
Associate Professor
USA
| archive and memory
| religion
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Paula Fass
Professor
USA
| (cross) borders
| young migrants
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Kathleen Lopez
Associate Professor
USA
| class/race/gender
| transpacific
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Recent Articles

Through playtime, Jewish refugee children in Shanghai acquired specific knowledge about their new home through sources unavailable to adults refugees.

The Power of Play: Jewish Refugee Children in World War II Shanghai

Mar 18, 2020
Kimberly Cheng
 
As Chinese children and youth immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they had to overcome increasing restrictions on their entry. This piece describes the knowledge they formed and passed on to succeed.

Crossing Borders: Chinese Immigrant Children and the Production of Knowledge

Mar 2, 2020
Wendy L. Rouse
 
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
 
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Migrant Knowledge

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

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Notices and Tips

"Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives," edited by Andrea Westermann and Onur Erdur, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 15 (2020).

News from the Network: Histories of Migrant Knowledge

Mar 26, 2020
 
Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers

Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation

Mar 16, 2020
 
Wolf Gruner's 2016 monograph is now available in English as 'The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses.'

News from the Network: The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

Mar 15, 2020
 
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