Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Andrzej Michalzyk

Assistant Professor

Germany

| Labor

| Political Culture

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Madeline Y. Hsu

Professor

USA

| class/race/gender

| transpacific

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Nicholas De Genova

Professor

USA

| (cross) borders

| class/race/gender

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Donna R. Gabaccia

Professor

USA / Canada

| Class/Race/Gender

| Identity and Belonging

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Ecem Nazlı Üçok

Lecturer

Czech Republic

| class/race/gender

| identity and belonging

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Halyna Leontiy

Postdoctoral Fellow

Germany

| Identity and Belonging

| Transit

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Recent Features

Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives.

Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political

Jun 20, 2025

Amelie Harbisch

From an anthropological perspective, Santisteban analyzes the collective memories about the displacements of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people (Patagonia) in the territory before and during the imposition of state borders and the nation-state.

Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains

Apr 14, 2025

Kaia Santisteban

Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to community strategies while challenging gender and socio-environmental inequalities.

Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice

Mar 7, 2025

María Belén López

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

Mirrors a call for papers for a conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge from 8-10 October, 2025.

The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Feb 24, 2025

Roundup of calls for papers, submissions, conference reports, new publications relevant to Migrant Knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 19

May 29, 2024

Call for proposals from the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies for an online source portal called "History of the German-Jewish Diaspora"

Call for Proposals: Online Source Portal ‘History of the German-Jewish Diaspora’

Jan 24, 2024