Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: Switzerland

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

The author argues that history must be reconceptualized to include migrants not as extras in a society's history but as constitutive of that society. Her example comes from contemporary Swiss history.

Telling History from a Migration Perspective is Not an Add-On

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