Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Daniel Bessner

Assistant Professor

USA

| Experts

| Forced Migration

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The Production of Knowledge on Migration

Research Group

Germany

| Class/Race/Gender

| Experts

| Translation

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Avi Sharma

Research Fellow

Germany

| Environment

| Forced Migration

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Benjamin Hein

Assistant Professor

USA

| Labor

| Political Culture

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Andrea Westermann

Guest Scholar

Switzerland

| Environment

| Political Culture

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Matthias Springborn

Research Assistant

Germany

| Forced Migration

| Transit

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Recent Features

Visual and auditory metaphors shape the historiography of encounter, including research on translators in nineteenth-century Alaska.

Metaphors and the Historiography of Encounter

Nov 19, 2021

Luise Fast

Irawati Karve earned her doctorate in interwar Berlin before returning to India, where she pursued a career in anthropology. Discussing her work is difficult because she both rejected and adopted claims from the now infamous Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics.

The Contradictions of Irawati Karve: A Conversation

Nov 9, 2021

Thiago Pinto Barbosa
Urmilla Deshpande

During the interwar period and much of World War II, the Parisian café Le Bosphore served as a focal point of sociability and knowledge exchange for Sephardi Jews from the former Ottoman Empire.

Cafés as Sites of Migrant Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Ottoman Jews in Interwar Paris

Oct 21, 2021

Robin Buller

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.