Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Akasemi Newsome

Associate Director, Institute of European Studies

UC Berkeley,

USA

class/race/gender

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Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years.

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Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

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Introduces the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation, which documents the human consequences of contemporary regimes of migration and border control in the United States and Mexico.

Migrant Autonomy in the Face of Regimes of Deterrence: Complications and Resiliency

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West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives.

Knowledge about the ‘Migrant Woman’ as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany