Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: migration

Discusses the way Ecuadorian elites presented themselves at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the world, focusing on strategies to attract European and American migrants and minimize the perception of Indigenous populations and disease.

Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

Erika Rosado Valencia

Describes the subgroup of migrants called “third culture kids,” the adjustments they go through, and some knowledge-based implications.

Third Cultures—The (Cursed) Gold of Migrants?

Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld

Reflects on the author's own experience as a researcher and theories such as “situated knowledge,” and “relational accountability,” emotional labor feminist standpoint theory to elucidate how researchers can produce knowledge that reflects the meaningful connections and stories they encountered in the course of their research journey.

Navigating the Personal in Migration Research

Ecem Nazlı Üçok

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

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

#MigKnow Notes 19

A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 18

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

News from Migrant Knowledge Network members and about other associated events Members are invited to share theirs as well.

News from the Network

Presents the motivation for GHI's spring lecture series on climate mobilities with abstracts of the lectures.

GHI Lecture Series—Moving Out of Harm’s Way: Historical Perspectives on Climate-related Mobilities

Nino Vallen
Casey Sutcliffe

Describes Migration- and Mobility-related events at #AHA23

Migrant Knowledge at the #AHA23

A new open access book by Jochen Oltmer (Osnabrück) is available in Springer's Essentials series: Die Grenzen der EU: Europäische Integration, 'Schengen' und die Kontrolle der Migration (2021).

New Book from the Network: Europe’s Borders

Finding suitable teaching materials to prepare Jewish children and youth for their new lives in Palestine after having survived the Holocaust presented a unique set of challenges.

Some Challenges for Knowledge Transfer in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps after World War II

Matthias Springborn

Victoria Harms talks with the Turkish-German activist and author Ali Can about race, diversity, and identity in contemporary Germany.

‘I am German plus something else’ — An Interview with Ali Can

Lorella Viola and Machteld Venken at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History seek applications for a large panel on "Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age." Deadline: November 20, 2020.

Call: Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age

"Migration" is not a stable, preexisting category but rather a product of societal processes that shape what the term comprises. We must take these entanglements with the past into account in our present-day research.

Not a Given Object: What Historians Can Learn from the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies

Isabella Löhr
Christiane Reinecke

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

Germans translated Buddhist texts in Germany, and they migrated to British Ceylon in order to get closer to Buddhism. Their Buddhist practices ended up changing Buddhism's relationship to texts in their South Asian home.

German Migrants and the Circulation of Buddhist Knowledge between Germany and British Ceylon

Sebastian Musch

The author reflects on the migrant knowledge revealed in Alex Pitstra's film about his complicated transnational family relationships, "Bezness as Usual."

The Trade-Off Called Love? Knowledge about Love, Migration, and Borders

Miriam Gutekunst