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 Sep 6, 2023 Robert McKee Irwin
The latest issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute includes an interview with Director Simone Lässig on the research focus "In Global Transit" Simone Lässig Interviewed on “In Global Transit” Research Focus Jul 1, 2022
In this two-part piece about Jewish refugee photographers, the authors "travel to another historical context to inquire about what migrants and refugees 'knew' and how they choose to communicate their knowledge in their photographic work." Displacement in Stills: German-Jewish Photographers on the Move May 14, 2021 Sheer GanorRebekka Grossmann
Wolf Gruner's 2016 monograph is now available in English as 'The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses.' New Book from the Network: The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia Mar 15, 2020
The work of both Hans Rosenberg and Raul Hilberg was initially marginalized, but later entered the mainstream of German historiography. Why? What role did migration play in their work and its reception? Marginalized Migrant Knowledge: The Reception of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in West Germany after 1945 Nov 6, 2019 Anna Corsten
Hirschfeld's encounters with Islam and Muslims in Indonesia, India, and the Near East "taught him how closely connected the issues of sexual and cultural diversity were." Knowledge in Transit: Global Encounters and Transformation in Magnus Hirschfeld’s Travelogue Nov 6, 2019 Razak Khan
Makes a case for not prejudging people smugglers in history or the testimony they left behind in state police records, using the example of Eastern and Central Europe in the interwar period. Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth Oct 30, 2019 Allison Schmidt
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 Mar 27, 2019 Stacy D. Fahrenthold