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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