Migrant
Knowledge

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

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Meet our Network
Kevin Ostoyich
Associate Professor
USA
| Identity and Belonging
| Transpacific
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Joseph Malherek
Postdoctoral Researcher
USA
| Experts
| Transit
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Miriam Rürup
Professor
Germany
| Experts
| Forced Migration
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Matthias Springborn
Research Assistant
Germany
| Forced Migration
| Transit
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Jawad Daheur
Postdoctoral Researcher
France
| Environment
| Identity and Belonging
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Wolf Gruner
Professor
USA
| Forced Migration
| Transit
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Recent Features

Trying to understand German migration to the United States in the nineteenth century raises the problem of how the U.S. migration regime shaped the data that researchers rely on in the first place.

Why the History of Knowledge Matters in a Digital History of Migration

Sep 19, 2021
Sebastian F. Bondzio
 
The authors discuss disparagement practices using the "invectivity" approach developed at the TU Dresden. Shaming helps demarcate in-groups from out-groups, feeding communication loops and producing emotions beyond the immediate parties involved.

Invective Loops: How Shaming Migrants Shapes Knowledge Orders

Aug 24, 2021
Dagmar Ellerbrock
Swen Steinberg
 
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
 
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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

New book by Christiane Reinecke, Die Ungleichheit der Städte: Urbane Problemzonen im postkolonialen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik [The Inequality of Cities: Urban Problem Zones in Postcolonial France and the Federal Republic of Germany] (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021).

New Book from the Network: Urban Inequality

Aug 30, 2021
 
New Book: Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century, ed. Margit Fauser, Anne Friedrichs, and Levke Harders (Routledge, 2021).

New Book from the Network: Migrations and Border Processes

Aug 30, 2021
 
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
 
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