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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow

Network & blog @GHIWashington @ghiwest at the intersection of migration & knowledge studies. Tweets: Casey Sutcliffe (cs) @SwenSteinberg (sst)

Joined February 2019
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Upcoming online discussion (June 24) organized & moderated by founding @migknow member @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Philipp Strobl: Lost Knowledge and Migration: Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori 5-6 PM (CET)ghi-dc.org/events/event/date…
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We are moving! We will keep our X account for a few more weeks, but we will be posting henceforth from Bluesky. Please follow us there: @migknow.bsky.social to keep following our blog about Migrant Knowledge.
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We've mirrored a call for papers of possible interest to our readers from @nhknowledge: migrantknowledge.org/2025/02…

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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New post today by Erika Rosado Valencia of @UniFAU about @Ecuador's self-presentation at the Columbian Exhibition @ColumbianEx1893 and in the publication "El Ecuador in Chicago": migrantknowledge.org/2025/01…

Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration...

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...

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See our new blogpost by Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, @MSCActions scholar, on #ThirdCultureKids as a subgroup of #migrants with their own forms of #knowledge @XploreLifeStory : migrantknowledge.org/2024/12…

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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See the new blogpost on our sister blog #histknowledge hosted by @GHIWashington of @webertweets
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New blogpost today by Alice Weinreb of @loyolahistdept on @HildeBruch and her role in establishing #anorexia nervosa as a disease @AllianceforED @aedweb @BDD_anorexia @SWAN_Research: historyofknowledge.hypothese…
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See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge curated by @GHIWashington of @webertweets about stowaway mosquitoes and #quarantine knowledge.
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See our new blogpost by Laura-Elena Keck of @UniLeipzig of the #Pandemic Space project of @ReCentGlobe on efforts to stop #mosquitoes from spreading disease. historyofknowledge.hypothese…
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New post today by Ecem Nazlı Üçok of @UniKarlova Dept. of #Sociology elucidates the importance of researchers acknowledging their #positionality and #emotional labor in their work: migrantknowledge.org/2024/11…

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...

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Please see the new Knowledge Notes at our sister blog @histknowledge, curated by @GHIWashington of @webertweets. Many upcoming deadlines! historyofknowledge.hypothese…

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.

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In our new blogpost today, the blog's new content editor Viola Alianov-Rautenberg interviews one of the blog founders, @SwenSteinberg, about the first five years of the Migrant Knowledge network and blog: migrantknowledge.org/2024/10…

A Journey Worth Knowing About? Interview with Swen Steinberg about the Past Five Years of the Blog...

Interview with Swen Steinberg outlining key achievements of the blog and network Migrant Knowledge since its inception in 2019.

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The "In Global Transit" network is closely associated with our blog. See today's new post, an interview with @SwenSteinberg, to find out more!
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2 Oct 2024
Registration is now open for our Panel Discussion 'Knowledge Born in Global Transit? Revisiting Migrants' Histories' with Simone Lässig @GHIWashington @MigKnow and Mariko Iijima @SophiaUniv_ENG plus comments by DIJ's @HaraldKuemmerle Oct 15, onsite @ DIJ dijtokyo.org/event/panel-dis…
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Our two blogs have been active! In addition to our new blogpost, our sister blog hosted by @GHIWashington of @webertweets has a new post #food knowledge from #space flight:
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Recent @WaxmannVerlag published expert on #food history Alwin Cubasch of @HumboldtUni contributed a new blogpost on food #knowledge gleaned in #space. @NASAhistory: historyofknowledge.net/2024/…
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A new post by @LauraStielike of @IMIS_UOS @UniOsnabrueck has dropped, examining the #Politics of the production of #Knowledge in #Migration Studies: migrantknowledge.org/2024/06…

The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

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.

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Today we conclude the #Texas #German miniseries curated by @DrJanaWeiss of @Germanic_Utexas on the history of @Wurstfest in New Braunfels @CityofNBTX @NewBraunfelsHZ written by Aiden Maliskas and Mark McShane: migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…

Wurstfest: A Culinary, Cultural, and Economic Masterpiece

Looks at the ethnic, cultural, and economic factors that drove the development of Wurstfest, one of the biggest German ethnic festivals in the United States.

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New #MigKnow Notes post today featuring CfPs, conferences, lectures, and books relevant to #migration #history. See especially the CfP by network member @tvmartinez for a thematic section for the journal The History of Intellectual Culture migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…

#MigKnow Notes 19

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

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See the new post at our sister blog @histknowledge, curated by @GHIWashington of @webertweets. About #Sovietization of science in #Poland: historyofknowledge.net/2024/…
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16 May 2024
Just published in #OpenAccess! "Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750-1830", ed. by Jan C. Jansen and Kirsten McKenzie, with @CambridgeUP and @GHIWashington. Full download under: bit.ly/3yqOGag More info: see 🧵

Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions

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See the new blogpost on our sister blog @MigKnow of @GHIWashington @ghiwest @webertweets
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16 May 2024
See the latest installment of our miniseries on Texas Germans on German Texas Foodways among #nineteenthcentury German #immigrants curated by @DrJanaWeiss of @UTAustin by students Rodolfo Alvarez and Aubrey Hernandez: #TexasBBQ: migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…
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See the latest installment of our miniseries on Texas Germans on German Texas Foodways among #nineteenthcentury German #immigrants curated by @DrJanaWeiss of @UTAustin by students Rodolfo Alvarez and Aubrey Hernandez: #TexasBBQ: migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…

Exploring Texas German Foodways

Examines the ways that German immigrants to Texas adjusted and adapted their foodways to the foods available and affordable in their new home.

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New blog post in the miniseries on #TexasGermans curated by @DrJanaWeiss on the knowledge of Native Americans conveyed in the art of Richard Petri: migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…
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