Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Levke Harders

Professor in the History Department

Innsbruck,

Austria

(cross) borders

class/race/gender

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Workshop report for the Third Annual Bucerius Young Scholar Forum, held at the GHI Pacific Regional Office at Berkeley in October 2019.

Report: Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

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Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale.

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