Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: knowledge transfers

Weiss introduces a miniseries on German migration to Texas and knowledge transfers that occurred between German settlers and Texans.

‘On to Texas’: An Introduction to the Miniseries on Texas Germans

Introduces the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation, which documents the human consequences of contemporary regimes of migration and border control in the United States and Mexico.

Migrant Autonomy in the Face of Regimes of Deterrence: Complications and Resiliency

Robert McKee Irwin

Presents the knowledge produced and shared in refugee letters in periodicals in Switzerland in the post-World War II period.

Epistolary Knowledge in Transit: Migrant Letters in Swiss Refugee Periodicals after the Second World War

Ramon Wiederkehr

Bohemian immigrant Anton Schwarz impacted brewing knowledge and practice in the US by introducing knowledge from Germany, especially. He founded the US Brewers' Academy and introduced brewing with adjuncts.

Migration and the Transatlantic Circulation of Brewing Knowledge: The Case of Anton Schwarz

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

Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home.

Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence

Hannah Laubrock

The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself.

Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts

Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there.

European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism

Blog post by Charlotte Mueller, who argues, "Migrants can be knowledge senders and knowledge receivers simultaneously, in their country of destination as well as in their country of origin."

News from the Network: Migration and Knowledge Transfer