Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Amelie Harbisch

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Erfurt,

Germany

forced migration

identity and belonging

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Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives.

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