Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Ulrike Bialas

Research Fellow

Germany

| forced migration

| young migrants

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Vladislava Maria Warditz

Institut für Slavistik / Slavische Sprachwissenschaft

Germany

| Identity and Belonging

| Translation

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Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Associate Professor

USA

| Forced Migration

| Material Culture

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Matthias Thaden

Doctoral Student

Germany

| Forced Migration

| Identity and Belonging

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Patricia "Casey" Sutcliffe

Editor

USA

| (cross) borders

| translation

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Anna Vaninskaya

Senior Lecturer

Great Britain

| (Cross) Borders

| Political Culture

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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

The latest issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute includes an interview with Director Simone Lässig on the research focus "In Global Transit"