Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Vivek Bald

Associate Professor

USA

| (cross) borders

| labor

see profile

Rebekka Grossmann

Postdoctoral Fellow

USA

| identity and belonging

| material culture

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Levke Harders

Assistant Professor

Germany

| (cross) borders

| class/race/gender

see profile

Ana Paulina Lee

Assistant Professor

USA

| identity and belonging

| transpacific

see profile

Akasemi Newsome

Associate Director

USA

| class/race/gender

| labor

see profile

Michelle Lynn Kahn

Assistant Professor

USA

| class/race/gender

| young migrants

see profile

Recent Articles

W. F. Whyte's 'Street Corner Society' became a popular text for sociology students, but specialists in Italian American studies never warmed to it. Donna Gabaccio explains why with "a hidden history of gender and ethnic dynamics" in the academy.

‘The Book That Would Not Die’

Nov 13, 2020

Donna R. Gabaccia

Annette Lützel explains the FRG's very different responses to the large numbers of refugees who came in the early 1990s and in 2015. Citing recent employment and job-training numbers, she sees an ongoing positive trend.

From Hoyerswerda to Welcome Culture: Asylum and Integration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany

Nov 5, 2020

Annette Lützel

"Migration" is not a stable, preexisting category but rather a product of societal processes that shape what the term comprises. We must take these entanglements with the past into account in our present-day research.

Not a Given Object: What Historians Can Learn from the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies

Oct 27, 2020

Isabella Löhr
Christiane Reinecke

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

New book: Jan Jansen and Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge University Press 2020.