Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Assistant Professor of Global Migration and Forced Displacement

University of California, Santa Barbara,

USA

forced migration

identity and belonging

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#MigKnow Notes 17

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

Thinks about how migrant biographies and autobiographies can be used to understand associated knowledge transfer and translation processes, including their "success" or "failure." Examples are from Australia after World War Two.

Migrant Biographies as a Prism for Explaining Transnational Knowledge Transfers

The authors discuss disparagement practices using the "invectivity" approach developed at the TU Dresden. Shaming helps demarcate in-groups from out-groups, feeding communication loops and producing emotions beyond the immediate parties involved.

Invective Loops: How Shaming Migrants Shapes Knowledge Orders

Dagmar Ellerbrock and Swen Steinberg