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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow

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

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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · 26d

See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de:
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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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Aug 28

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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Aug 18

See the new post on our sister blog @histknowledge.bsky.social, curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de

History of Knowledge @histknowledge.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Jun 20

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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · May 29

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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Apr 14

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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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Apr 10

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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