Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Swen Steinberg

Lecturer in Global History

Canada

| Environment

| Young Migrants

see profile

Nick Underwood

Assistant Professor

USA

| Archive and Memory

| Religion

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Lok Siu

Associate Professor

USA

| Identity and Belonging

| Transpacific

see profile

Akasemi Newsome

Associate Director

USA

| Class/Race/Gender

| Labor

see profile

Uwe Lübken

Professor

Germany

| Environment

| Forced Migration

see profile

Susanne Quitmann

Research Fellow

| Archive and Memory

| Young Migrants

see profile

Recent Features

Reflections on children's agency in historiography in the run-up to a workshop on the theme. The authors engage with Sarah Mazah's 2020 article in the American Historical Review.

Reflections on Children’s Agency (in Migration)

Jan 5, 2022

Bettina Hitzer
Friederike Kind-Kovács

The intimate and personal network of an imperial official's well-educated wife who migrated with her husband temporarily to the colonies served as a conduit for the sharing and formation of knowledge about Britain’s empire in the late eighteenth century.

Colonial Correspondence and Knowledge Production: Elizabeth Simcoe and her Personal Networks

Dec 27, 2021

Elyse Bell

What migrants relay about a host country to their country of origin is shaped by competing pressures that transform knowledge. The reports of two London-based correspondents to prerevolutionary Russia illustrate this point.

Between Fact and Fiction: The Fabrication of Migrant Knowledge in Professional and Personal Correspondence

Dec 16, 2021

Anna Vaninskaya

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

An occasional roundup of resources for the study of migration and knowledge: calls, events, readings, etc.