An 1853 Map for German-Speaking Emigrants
The author interrogates a mid-nineteenth-century map for German emigrants, using it as a way to talk about the central concept behind this blog, “migrant knowledge”.
Refuge and Refuse: Migrant Knowledge and Environmental Education in Germany
“Migrant knowledge figures as a category of absence” in Europe. In Germany, one core issue is knowledge about recycling requirements and expectations. Efforts to teach it “betray an unreflective understanding of cultural identity.”
Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’
Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years.
