Migrant
Knowledge

Network and blog for scholarship at the intersection of migration and knowledge studies

Meet our Network

Emily Marker

Assistant Professor

USA

| class/race/gender

| young migrants

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Rebekka Grossmann

Postdoctoral Fellow

Israel

| identity and belonging

| material culture

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Robert McKee Irwin

Deputy Director, Global Migration Center

USA

| (cross) borders

| political culture

| transit

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Matthias Springborn

Research Assistant

Germany

| forced migration

| transit

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Miriam Rürup

Professor

Germany

| experts

| forced migration

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Christina Philips

Research Fellow

China

| (cross) borders

| archive and memory

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Recent Features

Explores the life and scientific work of Carl Sartorius (1796–1872), a German émigré who transformed his Veracruz plantation, Hacienda Mirador, into a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange.

Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution

Nov 28, 2025

Andreas Markus Schurr

Philipp Strobl discusses his new book on displaced knowledge of Austrian refugees in Australia.

Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book

Aug 28, 2025

Philipp Strobl
Nikolaus Hagen

Using the example of a group of refugees from Czechoslovakia in Canada during World War II, the author analyzes knowledge transfers through migration and their limitations in changing political and economic environments.

Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s

Jul 17, 2025

Swen Steinberg

Migrant Knowledge

Writing knowledge into the history of migration
and migration into the history of knowledge

Notices and Tips

Mirrors a call for papers for a conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge from 8-10 October, 2025.

The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Feb 24, 2025

Roundup of calls for papers, submissions, conference reports, new publications relevant to Migrant Knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 19

May 29, 2024

Call for proposals from the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies for an online source portal called "History of the German-Jewish Diaspora"

Call for Proposals: Online Source Portal ‘History of the German-Jewish Diaspora’

Jan 24, 2024