Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Maria Alexopoulou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Germany

| class/race/gender

| identity and belonging

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Erol Yildiz

Professor

Austria

| identity and belonging

| political culture

| religion

| young migrants

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Kathleen Lopez

Associate Professor

USA

| class/race/gender

| transpacific

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Miriam Gutekunst

Assistant Professor

Germany

| (cross) borders

| class/race/gender

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Stefanie Zloch

Research Fellow

Germany

| identity and belonging

| young migrants

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Martin Bemmann

Lecturer

Germany

| environment

| experts

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Recent Articles

Discusses the significance of the diverse terms contemporaries used to identify the various groups of Polish Jews who survived World War II as refugees in the Soviet Union.

What’s in a Name? How Titles Construct and Convey Knowledge about Migrants

Jun 18, 2020

Eliyana R. Adler

Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there.

European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism

Apr 29, 2020

Jan Logemann

Germans translated Buddhist texts in Germany, and they migrated to British Ceylon in order to get closer to Buddhism. Their Buddhist practices ended up changing Buddhism's relationship to texts in their South Asian home.

German Migrants and the Circulation of Buddhist Knowledge between Germany and British Ceylon

Apr 18, 2020

Sebastian Musch

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

The latest installment of related news and tips: An updated call, a podcast, and three conference reports, including one that discusses knowledge as a resource.