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# MigKnow Notes 5

September 20, 2019

Innovation through Migration: Senior Fellowships at the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI, UC Berkeley. Deadline: October 1, 2019.
Visiting Fellowship to Lund, Sweden, 1–2 weeks. Next deadline: November 1, 2019.
“Knowledge and Young Migrants,” special issue of KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 3, no. 2 (Fall 2019), forthcoming.

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