Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: knowledge about migrants

Presents the arguments from Stielike's longer German work on the politics of knowledge production in Migration Studies, examining 3 distinct types of migration research.

The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

Here we share a call for applications for the Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at UC Berkeley, GHI Pacific Office, September 2023, as it relates closely to our blog's topic.

Seventh Bucerius Young Scholars Forum—Indigenous Migration

Schütz shows how GDR officials' knowledge of violence against guest workers failed to change their perception of them or the nature of the country. Instead, they blamed the workers.

Violence against Migrants in the GDR and the Lack of Epistemic Impact

Johannes Schütz

Highlighting an interview with a Turkish migrant woman, Kübra Göksel explores the "knowledge" West Germans had about these guest workers, the impact this knowledge had on their lives, and the ways they occasionally utilized that knowledge for their own benefit.

Knowledge and Ignorance about ‘the Turkish Woman’ in West Germany and Migrant Women’s Responses

Categorization schemes are never neutral and rarely comprehensive, but the question of how to handle them is thornier than one might think. How can we question categories and their confining walls given that those same walls also provide shelter?

On the Discomfort of Shedding Ill-Fitting Categories

The author interrogates a mid-nineteenth-century map for German emigrants, using it as a way to talk about the central concept behind this blog, "migrant knowledge".

An 1853 Map for German-Speaking Emigrants

Mark R. Stoneman

Discusses a 1909 Syrian American advice book for Ottoman subjects planning to emigrate to the U.S., which contained knowledge about would-be immigrants' specific rights in the U.S. and self-fashioning tips for dealing with authorities there.

A Little Advice: Syrian American Advice Booklets as Knowledge Production

Stacy D. Fahrenthold

Two CFPs: "Material Cultures in Migration" (deadline: March 31, 2019) and "Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration" (deadline April 20, 2019)

# MigKnow Notes 1

Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years.

Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’

Mark R. Stoneman