Migrant
Knowledge

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

Meet our Network

Sarah Beringer

Head of Strategy & Communications

USA

| Environment

| Political Culture

see profile

Maria Alexopoulou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Germany

| Class/Race/Gender

| Identity and Belonging

see profile

Marc Hill

Professor

Austria

| (cross) borders

| class/race/gender

see profile

Michael Goebel

Associate Professor

Switzerland

| Class/Race/Gender

| Political Culture

see profile

Kathleen Lopez

Associate Professor

USA

| Class/Race/Gender

| Transpacific

see profile

Uwe Lübken

Professor

Germany

| Environment

| Forced Migration

see profile

Recent Features

Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home.

Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence

Nov 29, 2022

Hannah Laubrock

Analyzes the news items pertaining to America from all issues of the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876 in the context of the press of that era.

The Latest News from the Other Side: ‘America’ in the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876

Nov 18, 2022

Martin Bemmann

Analyzes the knowledge of America presented in the popular late 19th-c. German magazines Die Gartenlaube and Deutscher Hausschatz.

Through the Information Jungle Towards the ‘Land of Freedom’: Images of ‘America’ in German Magazines in the 1870s and 1880s

Nov 11, 2022

Luca Leitz-Schwoerer

Migrant Knowledge

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

Notices and Tips

Joseph Malherek has recently published the book Free-Market Socialists with Central European University Press. He also contributed an article to Dynamics of Emigration, edited by Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller and published by Berghahn Books.