Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow
@migknow.bsky.social
Network & blog
@GHIWashington
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at the intersection of migration & knowledge studies. Casey Sutcliffe (cs)
@SwenSteinberg
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@GHIWashington
@ghiwest
at the intersection of migration & knowledge studies. Casey Sutcliffe (cs)
@SwenSteinberg
(sst)
New blogpost by Nicolas Blumenthal of Univ. Fribourg and former @ghiwashington.bsky.social fellowship recipient on Swiss immigration laws and claims of racelessness in the postwar decades: migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland
Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II
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February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
New blogpost by Nicolas Blumenthal of Univ. Fribourg and former @ghiwashington.bsky.social fellowship recipient on Swiss immigration laws and claims of racelessness in the postwar decades: migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
New post by Andreas Markus Schurr of @eui-eu.bsky.social on #CarlSartorius, his plantation #HaciendaMirador, and his contributions to the #historyofscience, especially through his correspondence with the #Smithsonian: migrantknowledge.org/2025/11/28/c...
Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution - Migrant Knowledge
Explores the scientific work of Carl Sartorius and his Veracruz plantation, a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New post by Andreas Markus Schurr of @eui-eu.bsky.social on #CarlSartorius, his plantation #HaciendaMirador, and his contributions to the #historyofscience, especially through his correspondence with the #Smithsonian: migrantknowledge.org/2025/11/28/c...
See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de:
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26341
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26341
Inside Vipeholmsanstalten: Podcasting about Institutionalization and Memory in Sweden’s Welfare State
Analyzes the effects of podcasting both on the (his)storytelling and in redressing old abuses, here specifically about Vipeholmsanstalten, a Swedish institution that housed and treated people with int...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de:
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26341
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26341
New post today with Nikolaus Hagen interviewing @philippstrobl.bsky.social about his new book published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social on #Austrian #refugees in #Australia and their displaced knowledge: migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...
Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book - Migrant Knowledge
Philipp Strobl discusses his new book on displaced knowledge of Austrian refugees in Australia.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New post today with Nikolaus Hagen interviewing @philippstrobl.bsky.social about his new book published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social on #Austrian #refugees in #Australia and their displaced knowledge: migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...
See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social, curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de
New post today by @carolinemezger.bsky.social of @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social on the impact of #rumors about the #Holocaust: historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26203
Rumors of the Holocaust: Expressing an Unspeakable Knowledge
A contribution exploring the role of rumor in the development and articulation of knowledge on the Holocaust as it was unfolding.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social, curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de
Please see our new post today by blog co-founder @swensteinberg.bsky.social about industrial #forced_migrants from #Czechoslovakia in #Canada in the #Nazi era: migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s - Migrant Knowledge
Describes circumstances of a group of Czech refugees in Canada during WWII to analyze knowledge transfers through migration .
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July 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Please see our new post today by blog co-founder @swensteinberg.bsky.social about industrial #forced_migrants from #Czechoslovakia in #Canada in the #Nazi era: migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...
New blogpost today by Amelie Harbisch about refugees, counter-knowledge, and political agency: migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r... @refugees.skyfleet.blue @ghiwashington.bsky.social
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Refugees' Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political - Migrant Knowledge
Based on fieldwork, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for asserting their own knowledge about themselves.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
New blogpost today by Amelie Harbisch about refugees, counter-knowledge, and political agency: migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r... @refugees.skyfleet.blue @ghiwashington.bsky.social
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Upcoming online discussion (June 24) organized & moderated by founding @migknow.bsky.social 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)
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5-6 PM (CET)
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May 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Upcoming online discussion (June 24) organized & moderated by founding @migknow.bsky.social 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)
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
5-6 PM (CET)
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Please see our new blogpost today by Kaia Santisteban of the Universidad de #BuenosAires on #mobility and #migration of #Mapuche and #Teheulche people across the Chilean/Argentine border: migrantknowledge.org/2025/04/14/a...
Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains - Migrant Knowledge
Analyzes collective memories about displacements of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people (Patagonia) concerning state borders and the nation-state.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Please see our new blogpost today by Kaia Santisteban of the Universidad de #BuenosAires on #mobility and #migration of #Mapuche and #Teheulche people across the Chilean/Argentine border: migrantknowledge.org/2025/04/14/a...
Please see the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social by @barnabasbalint.bsky.social on dog squads in concentration camps, curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social: historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26040
Knowledge and Organization of Guard Dogs in the Nazi Concentration Camps: The Hundestaffeln
In March 1943, six Russian prisoners of war escaped from a factory in Neustadt where they had been forced to work. To recapture them, the German authorities dispatched SS-Untersturmführer Koermann and...
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April 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Please see the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social by @barnabasbalint.bsky.social on dog squads in concentration camps, curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social: historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26040