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
A book for children about young refugees in New York was rooted in real experiences. Its author's eye for children's agency can help us to understand refugee children as go-betweens in wartime New York. Young Refugees and Knowledge in New York during World War II: The Example of Babette Deutsch’s ‘The Welcome’ Aug 17, 2020 Swen Steinberg
Glenn Penny highlights aspects of children's go-between role in Chile not visible in histories of European migration to the United States. German schools in Chile and teachers posted there from Germany are central to this multigenerational story. Routes of Knowledge: Growing up German in Chile, 1900–50 Aug 7, 2020 H. Glenn Penny
West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives. Knowledge about the ‘Migrant Woman’ as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany Mar 29, 2022 Lauren Stokes