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 StroblNikolaus Hagen
Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives. Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political Jun 20, 2025 Amelie Harbisch
Presents testimonies of Nazi atrocities by witnesses who were interviewed by refugees in Sweden to show the epistemic value of emotions in analyses of knowledge circulation. Suffering, Displacement, and the Circulation of Knowledge about Nazi Atrocities Aug 27, 2024 Victoria Van Orden Martínez
CfP for Mapping German Film Exile: A Transnational Perspective CfP: Mapping German Film Exile: A Transnational Perspective Jan 16, 2024
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 Aug 21, 2023 Ramon Wiederkehr
A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge. #MigKnow Notes 18 Jul 28, 2023
Call for papers for workshop at USC Los Angeles from 28-29 June 2024 on Archives in/of Transit Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present Jun 23, 2023
Recounts the flooding of Vanport, Oregon, in 1948, the displacement of the city's residents, and the memory culture around this event. Migration, Displacement, and Memory in Vanport, Oregon (1942–2023) May 24, 2023 Uwe Lübken
Examines ways migrants in this caravan utilized legacy and social media to coordinate and organize the journey, as well as how these media are changing migrant paradigms. The 2018 Central American Migrant Caravan: Migrant Knowledge Circulation in Digital Media Platforms Jan 31, 2023 Antonio Romero
Joseph Malherek has recently published the book Free-Market Socialists with Central European University Press. He also contributed an article to Dynamics of Emigration, edited by Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller and published by Berghahn Books. New Book from the Network: Central European Jewish Socialist Refugees in the US Oct 24, 2022
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 Jul 19, 2021
New book: Jan Jansen and Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge University Press 2020. New Book from the Network: Refugee Crises, 1945–2000 Nov 9, 2020
Annette Lützel explains the FRG's very different responses to the large numbers of refugees who came in the early 1990s and in 2015. Citing recent employment and job-training numbers, she sees an ongoing positive trend. From Hoyerswerda to Welcome Culture: Asylum and Integration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany Nov 5, 2020 Annette Lützel
A Berlin-based group works with refugee girls, who make films as a way to narrate their life experiences. The idea is to help the girls form and mobilize knowledge repertoires for their self-empowerment, although the process is by no means linear. Girls’ Self-Empowerment through Narrative in Film Sep 23, 2020 Mervete BobajAnh-Susann Pham Thi
Event to launch "Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories," the first book to cover forced emigration from Nazi-controlled Europe to the territories of the British Empire as a whole. (Oct. 7, 2020, via Zoom. Registration required.) Virtual Book Launch: The British Empire as Refuge? Sep 5, 2020
A book for children about young refugees in New York was rooted in real experiences. Its author's eye for children's agency can help us to understand refugee children as go-betweens in wartime New York. Young Refugees and Knowledge in New York during World War II: The Example of Babette Deutsch’s ‘The Welcome’ Aug 17, 2020 Swen Steinberg
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’ Mar 14, 2019 Mark R. Stoneman