Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Lok Siu

Associate Professor

USA

| identity and belonging

| transpacific

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Sören Urbansky

Research Fellow

USA

| class/race/gender

| transpacific

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Allison Schmidt

USA

| archive and memory

| transit

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Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Associate Professor

USA

| forced migration

| material culture

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Carlos Rodrigo Sanhueza Cerda

Associate Professor

Chile

| experts

| material culture

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Maria Alexopoulou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Germany

| class/race/gender

| identity and belonging

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Recent Articles

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

Through playtime, Jewish refugee children in Shanghai acquired specific knowledge about their new home through sources unavailable to adults refugees.

The Power of Play: Jewish Refugee Children in World War II Shanghai

Mar 18, 2020

Kimberly Cheng

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.