Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

# MigKnow Notes 4

August 5, 2019

RECENT EVENTS: Almost all of the conference reports in the Spring 2019 issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (Washington, DC) relate to migration and knowledge.
ARTICLE: Sören Urbansky, “A Chinese Plague: Sinophobic Discourses in Vladivostok, San Francisco, and Singapore” in the same issue is not about migrant knowledge per se, but it has implications for past knowledge about three Chinese diasporic communities on the Pacific Rim.
ARTICLE: Uwe Lübken, “Histories of the Unprecedented: Climate Change, Environmental Transformations, and Displacement in the United States” by Uwe Lübken, Open Library of Humanities 5, no. 1, January 29, 2019.
REFERENCE: Version 2.0 of Barbara Lüthi, “Migration and History,” Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, July 6, 2018, includes a section on knowledge.

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