- Nino Vallen has joined the GHI (Pacific Office) and our network. He is a historian of Latin America and the Pacific World. His current research project explores the role of the Chinese migrant worker in the stories people told in South America in disputes about the exploitation of natural resources from about 1850 to 1950.
- Philipp Strobl’s essay collection, Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror (London/New York: Routledge, 2022), which he coedited with Susanne Korbel, was reviewed in Jewish Culture and History by Charlie Knight (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2096311?src=). Knight highlights the importance of the Migrant Knowledge approach:
Since 2017, scholars such as Simone Lässig and Swen Steinberg have highlighted that whilst the interactions between knowledge spaces and producers is recognised for certain individual actors (citing explorers, colonizers, missionaries, traders and diplomats), migrants were yet to be studied. This intersection has led to fruitful research by scholars across the globe ...
- Robin Buller recently published an article in the newspaper Oaklandside, “Refugees Feel the Push and Pull of Oakland,” reflecting on refugees and the housing prices in Oakland, California.
- Sebastian Musch published a review of Ruth Balint’s Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021) on H-Soz-Kult.
- Michelle Lynn Kahn published an article, “Rethinking Central Europe as a Migration Space: From the Ottoman Empire through the Cold War and the Refugee Crisis,” Central European History 55, Special Issue 1: “Sovereignty in German History,” March 2022.
- Andrea Westermann published an article online: “Against the Aestheticization of Technofossils: Considering Migrant Labor and Petrochemical Feedstocks in the Future History of Plastic,” Anthropocene Curriculum, April 22, 2022.
- The most recent edition of the GHI Bulletin includes many features by network members, such as Andreas Greiner‘s “Aviation History and Global History: Towards a Research Agenda for the Interwar Period”, and Simone Lässig‘s “In Global Transit” interview. Several conference reports relate to migration history, such as “Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century,” “Mobilities, Exclusion, and Migrants’ Agency in the Pacific Realm in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective,” “Fifth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives,” “First Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies,” and “Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers.”
- Mark Stoneman, who helped to found the Migrant Knowledge and History of Knowledge blogs, has left the editorial team, but first he continued his series of posts on the History of Knowledge with an article, “Blogging Migrant Knowledge – Part II”, introducing the Migrant Knowledge approach to that blog’s readers with many examples from the Migrant Knowledge blog. See also our recent editorial news post.
- Kijan Espahangizi‘s book Der Migration-Integration-Komplex has been published. See our New Book from the Network post.
Featured image: Cover of the new double issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2021), displaying the GHI’s new radial corporate design (images will vary).
