Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

GHI Pacific Office at UC Berkeley

Max Weber Foundation,

USA

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Approaching migrant knowledge after migration: Call for papers for a collaboration entailing three online workshops and a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal

Call: Lost Knowledge

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Makes a case for not prejudging people smugglers in history or the testimony they left behind in state police records, using the example of Eastern and Central Europe in the interwar period.

Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth

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The author examines records from trade union seminars given by IG Metall to Yugoslav workers in West Germany. Initially, the classes reflected the union's needs, but xenophobia in the 1980s led immigrant workers to express their own concerns in these meetings.

Trade Union Knowledge and Educational Programs for Yugoslavian Workers in West Germany, 1970s–1980s

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Andrea Wiegeshoff explorers the interactions of different ways of knowing at the moment of immigration using the 1914 example of Wong Kum Wo in Honolulu.

Clashing Ways of Knowing at the Moment of Immigration

Andrea Wiegeshoff