Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Philipp Eigenmann

Head of Research and Lecturer

Switzerland

| Political Culture

| Young Migrants

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Kai Johann Willms

Doctoral Candidate

Germany

| experts

| identity and belonging

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Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Associate Professor

USA

| identity and belonging

| transit

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Fredy Gonzalez

Associate Professor

USA

| Class/Race/Gender

| Transpacific

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Wim Coudenys

Professor for Russian History and Culture

Belgium

| archive and memory

| translation

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Andrea Westermann

Assosciate Professor

Germany

| environment

| political culture

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Recent Features

Examines The Indian Vocabulary (1788) produced in Britain for colonial civil servants in order to discern the ambiguous relationship toward India and British efforts to define itself in relation to its colony therein.

From Nabob to Saheb: Reflections of British Rule in The Indian Vocabulary

Sep 20, 2023

Mayukhi Ghosh

Introduces the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation, which documents the human consequences of contemporary regimes of migration and border control in the United States and Mexico.

Migrant Autonomy in the Face of Regimes of Deterrence: Complications and Resiliency

Sep 6, 2023

Robert McKee Irwin

Presents the knowledge produced and shared in refugee letters in periodicals in Switzerland in the post-World War II period.

Epistolary Knowledge in Transit: Migrant Letters in Swiss Refugee Periodicals after the Second World War

Aug 21, 2023

Ramon Wiederkehr

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge.