Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Laura Stielike

postdoctoral researcher

Universität Osnabrück,

Germany

archive and memory

class/race/gender

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Presents the arguments from Stielike's longer German work on the politics of knowledge production in Migration Studies, examining 3 distinct types of migration research.

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Surveys the research on current efforts to leverage professional knowledge and skills among migrant populations for development in their countries of origin. Pays particular attention to a program called Connecting Diaspora for Development.

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Examines the knowledge and images of Native Americans conveyed through the art of Texas German Richard Petri.

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