Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Maria Alexopoulou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Germany

| class/race/gender

| identity and belonging

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German Historical Institute Washington DC

USA

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Emily Marker

Assistant Professor

USA

| class/race/gender

| young migrants

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Jan Logemann

Assistant Professor

Germany

| experts

| forced migration

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Miriam Rürup

Professor

Germany

| experts

| forced migration

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Matthias Springborn

Research Assistant

Germany

| forced migration

| transit

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Recent Articles

A Berlin-based group works with refugee girls, who make films as a way to narrate their life experiences. The idea is to help the girls form and mobilize knowledge repertoires for their self-empowerment, although the process is by no means linear.

Girls’ Self-Empowerment through Narrative in Film

Sep 23, 2020

Mervete Bobaj
Anh-Susann Pham Thi

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

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

News and tips: an article about knowledge of America in rural Hungary, ca. 1900; a multimedia project on scientists in exile; a blog series on COVID-19 and refugees; and a winter school on Nazi forced labor.