Migrant
Knowledge

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

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Meet our Network
Kristina E. Poznan
USA
| Identity and Belonging
| Transit
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Julia Roth
Junior Professor
Germany
| Class/Race/Gender
| Political Culture
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Isabella Löhr
Head of Research Group
Germany
| (Cross) Borders
| Experts
| Political Culture
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Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Assistant Professor
USA
| (Cross) Borders
| Class/Race/Gender
| Political Culture
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Sarah Hagmann
Doctoral Candidate
Switzerland
| Experts
| Forced Migration
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Emily Marker
Assistant Professor
USA
| Class/Race/Gender
| Young Migrants
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Recent Features

Using the example of Max Vasmer's biography, the authors argue that "Slavic Studies in general and in German-speaking countries in particular can and should be studied from the perspective of migrant knowledge."

Slavic Studies as Migrant Knowledge: The Case of Max Vasmer

Jul 22, 2021
Vladislava Maria Warditz
Wim Coudenys
 
Elliot Young reminds us to consider migrants not only as victims, as the objects of others' actions, but also as subjects with their own agency. This shift in perspective has implications for how we understand migration facilitation, among other things.

Beyond Chinese “Coolies” as Victims

Jul 14, 2021
Elliot Young
 
Child migrants often turned to their peers to obtain certain kinds of information. Finding their peers in other towns meant turning to the migration agencies, which generated and archived revealing sources.

Knowledge Sharing among British Child Migrants in Canada, 1869–1950

Jun 22, 2021
Susanne Quitmann
 
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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

Call for a workshop titled "Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks during and after the Holocaust." Held by the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Call: “Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks during and after the Holocaust”

Jul 20, 2021
 
A new open access book by Jochen Oltmer (Osnabrück) is available in Springer's Essentials series: Die Grenzen der EU: Europäische Integration, 'Schengen' und die Kontrolle der Migration (2021).

News from the Network: Europe’s Borders

Jul 19, 2021
 
New essay collection: 'Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War' edited by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel R. Harisch, and Maria Schenck – open access at De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

News from the Network: Africa and East Germany during the Cold War

Jul 15, 2021
 
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