Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Simone Lässig

Director, German Historical Institute Washington

GHI Washington, DC,

USA

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The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself.

Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts

Presents the image of America conveyed in literature available in the public libraries in southern Baden, esp. Lahr in late 19th c.

Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: ‘America’-related Literature in the Public Libraries of Southern Baden

A Berlin-based group works with refugee girls, who make films as a way to narrate their life experiences. The idea is to help the girls form and mobilize knowledge repertoires for their self-empowerment, although the process is by no means linear.

Girls’ Self-Empowerment through Narrative in Film

Mervete Bobaj and Anh-Susann Pham Thi

Demonstrates how Chinese immigrants to Peru utilized their knowledge of its culture and aspirations in constructing the fountain to improve their standing.

The Chinese Fountain: Migrant Knowledge and World-Making in Early Twentieth-Century Peru