Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Annette Lützel

Koordinatorin Sprachlernprojekt für geflüchtete Kinder und Jugendliche

Germany

| forced migration

| translation

| young migrants

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Sebastian Musch

Research Fellow

Germany

| forced migration

| religion

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Eiichiro Azuma

Associate Professor

USA

| political culture

| transpacific

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Lilly Maier

Doctoral Candidate

Germany

| archive and memory

| young migrants

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Machteld Venken

Professor

Luxembourg

| (cross) borders

| identity and belonging

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Sören Urbansky

Research Fellow

USA

| class/race/gender

| transpacific

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Recent Articles

The author looks at the relationship between two famous early sociological community studies, "Middletown" and "Marienthal." The latter became Paul Lazarsfeld's "ticket out of Europe just as the continent was descending into fascism."

Drifting Along: Unemployment and Interwar Social Research, from Marienthal to Muncie

Dec 28, 2020

Joseph Malherek

The author discusses the source value of U.S. immigrant newspapers. If there are many reasons to approach them with caution, they can still help scholars learn "what migrants knew and wanted their fellow migrants to know..."

Transatlantic Migrants and Knowledge in the U.S. Immigrant Press

Dec 22, 2020

Kristina E. Poznan

W. F. Whyte's 'Street Corner Society' became a popular text for sociology students, but specialists in Italian American studies never warmed to it. Donna Gabaccio explains why with "a hidden history of gender and ethnic dynamics" in the academy.

‘The Book That Would Not Die’

Nov 13, 2020

Donna R. Gabaccia

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

News and tips: one postdoc and two doctoral research positions, three calls, a book launch, and a new book series.