Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Rebekka von Mallinckrodt

Professor and Head of the Division for Early Modern History

University of Bremen,

Germany

forced migration

identity and belonging

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Points to manifold manifestations of migrant knowledge and reflects on how studying it can open fruitful avenues of historical research.

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