Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Hanna Haag

Lecturer and Research Fellow, Gender- und Frauenforschungszentrum der hessischen Hochschulen (gFFZ)

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences,

Germany

Archive and Memory

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