Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Jochen Oltmer

Professor

Germany

| Experts

| Political Culture

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Assistant Professor

USA

| Forced Migration

| Identity and Belonging

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Thiago Pinto Barbosa

PhD Candidate

Germany

| class/race/gender

| experts

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Wolf Gruner

Professor

USA

| Forced Migration

| Transit

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Jan Logemann

Assistant Professor

Germany

| Experts

| Forced Migration

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Philipp Strobl

Assistant Professor

Germany

| Forced Migration

| Transit

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Recent Features

West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives.

Knowledge about the ‘Migrant Woman’ as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany

Mar 29, 2022

Lauren Stokes

Documents from the Qing dynasty's borderlands are crucial for understanding migrations in these regions, but accessing and contextualizing them is complicated by a unique set of political and archival challenges from the past and present.

The ‘Manchurian Archive’ and the Discourse on ‘Lost’ and ‘Returned’ Documents in China

Mar 12, 2022

Christina Philips

Categorization schemes are never neutral and rarely comprehensive, but the question of how to handle them is thornier than one might think. How can we question categories and their confining walls given that those same walls also provide shelter?

On the Discomfort of Shedding Ill-Fitting Categories

Mar 7, 2022

Ulrike Bialas

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

Lecture series for 'In Global Transit' Project begins June 8 with a lecture by Joachim Schlör. Registration required.