Recent Posts
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Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice
Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to community strategies while challenging gender and socio-environmental inequalities.
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The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge
Mirrors a call for papers for a conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge from 8-10 October, 2025.
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Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
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.
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Third Cultures—The (Cursed) Gold of Migrants?
Describes the subgroup of migrants called “third culture kids,” the adjustments they go through, and some knowledge-based implications.
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Navigating the Personal in Migration Research
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.
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A Journey Worth Knowing About? Interview with Swen Steinberg about the Past Five Years of the Blog Migrant Knowledge
Interview with Swen Steinberg outlining key achievements of the blog and network Migrant Knowledge since its inception in 2019.
About Migrant Knowledge
The purpose of this website, Migrant Knowledge, is to foster and disseminate research at the nexus of migration and knowledge studies. It was conceived and is edited by the current director of the German Historical Institute, Simone Lässig, as part of her efforts to establish migration and mobility and the history of knowledge as key research foci of the institute. Migrating people—social actors with agency—are the main focus. Thus “migrant knowledge.” At the same time, there is room for interesting work on knowledge about migrants, especially if such research helps us to understand migrant knowledge. The focus here is mainly historical, but Migrant Knowledge embraces perspectives from other disciplines as well.
Migrant Knowledge comprises two main areas, a research network and a blog. The network is coordinated by the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI). The website and blog are edited by staff in both Washington and Berkeley.
Editors
- Simone Lässig and Swen Steinberg (cofounders)
- Viola Alianov-Rautenberg
- Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
Editorial Alumni
- Andreas Greiner
- Nino Vallen
- Mark Stoneman (cofounder)
- Andrea Westermann (cofounder)
Learn more about why migrant knowledge matters and what the GHI Pacific Office at Berkeley does.
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