A Berlin-based group works with refugee girls, who make films as a way to narrate their life experiences. The idea is to help the girls form and mobilize knowledge repertoires for their self-empowerment, although the process is by no means linear. Girls’ Self-Empowerment through Narrative in Film Sep 23, 2020 Mervete Bobaj and Anh-Susann Pham Thi
Visual and auditory metaphors shape the historiography of encounter, including research on translators in nineteenth-century Alaska. Metaphors and the Historiography of Encounter Nov 19, 2021 Luise Fast
Trying to understand German migration to the United States in the nineteenth century raises the problem of how the U.S. migration regime shaped the data that researchers rely on in the first place. Why the History of Knowledge Matters in a Digital History of Migration Sep 19, 2021 Sebastian F. Bondzio
A roundup of recent work, relevant publications, resources, and calls for papers related to migrant knowledge. #MigKnow Notes 15 Dec 19, 2022