Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Onur Erdur

Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural History and Theory

Humboldt University, Berlin,

Germany

Political Culture

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News from the Network

Using oral history, the author explores how a Polish Jewish family "used knowledge as a strategy not merely to survive but to build a new life" in what turned out to be a highly contingent transit process.

Knowledge as a Strategy on the Migratory Routes of Polish Jewish Survivors after World War II

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Makes a case for not prejudging people smugglers in history or the testimony they left behind in state police records, using the example of Eastern and Central Europe in the interwar period.

Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth

Allison Schmidt

The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself.

Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts