Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Matthias Springborn

Research Assistant

Germany

| forced migration

| transit

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Erol Yildiz

Professor

Austria

| identity and belonging

| political culture

| religion

| young migrants

see profile

Anne-Christine Hamel

Doctoral Candidate

Germany

| political culture

| young migrants

see profile

Joela Jacobs

Assistant Professor

USA

| environment

| identity and belonging

see profile

Lok Siu

Associate Professor

USA

| identity and belonging

| transpacific

see profile

H. Glenn Penny

Professor

USA

| experts

| material culture

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Recent Articles

A researcher from Scotland, by way of Germany, examines a key text offered to international scholars at UC Berkeley during their initial orientation session there.

Exclusion and Erasure in ‘The Values Majority Culture Americans Live By’

Sep 3, 2020

Sarah Earnshaw

A book for children about young refugees in New York was rooted in real experiences. Its author's eye for children's agency can help us to understand refugee children as go-betweens in wartime New York.

Young Refugees and Knowledge in New York during World War II: The Example of Babette Deutsch’s ‘The Welcome’

Aug 17, 2020

Swen Steinberg

The "Qur'an school problem" in West Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s was in many ways a product of the migrant experts who bemoaned it, the teachers on loan from Turkey.

Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany

Aug 14, 2020

Brian Van Wyck

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

Event to launch "Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories," the first book to cover forced emigration from Nazi-controlled Europe to the territories of the British Empire as a whole. (Oct. 7, 2020, via Zoom. Registration required.)