Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge “at the Crossroads”

February 1, 2020

In September 2019, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge held Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond as an event “at the crossroads” of art, scholarship, and activism. It brought together people from all three groups “to think about migration and what it does with, and to, knowledge.” In this short movie, the people involved reflect on both the event and topic from different angles.

Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there.

European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism

Apr 29, 2020

Jan Logemann

Revisits Werner Schiffauer's 1991 classic, Die Migranten aus Subay, which reminds us that "migrants have lives of their own before they arrive in host societies, and they never cease to maintain ties … to the homelands they leave behind."

Rebels against the Homeland: Turkish Guest Workers in 1980s West German Anthropology

Oct 23, 2019

Michelle Lynn Kahn

Surveys the research on current efforts to leverage professional knowledge and skills among migrant populations for development in their countries of origin. Pays particular attention to a program called Connecting Diaspora for Development.

Research on Diaspora Knowledge Transfer within a Temporary Return Program

Oct 16, 2019

Charlotte Mueller

The author argues that history must be reconceptualized to include migrants not as extras in a society's history but as constitutive of that society. Her example comes from contemporary Swiss history.

Telling History from a Migration Perspective is Not an Add-On

Mar 15, 2019

Francesca Falk

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