In this piece, Maria Grynevych explores the question: What does it mean to be at once the beneficiary of an exceptional protection regime and someone who feels that exception as a weight – something to be justified, measured against others’ losses, and where possible refused? The condition has a deliberately uncomfortable name: privileged refugeehood.
By Edwin Mutyenyoka
In this piece, Mutenyoka examines the paradoxical reality of post-Apartheid South Africa, where a state founded on human rights and Pan-African solidarity now actively scapegoats and discriminates against migrants.
By Cristina Moreno Almeida and Hanan Natour.
What do we really mean when we speak of “Al-Andalus”? Was medieval Iberia a model of coexistence, a lost paradise, or something far more complex? How do historians find people and ideas that barely appear in the official record? And how do political and cultural actors today reach back to remember, romanticise, or instrumentalise the medieval past for political mobilisation? Cristina Moreno Almeida and Hanan Natour discuss how the digital Al Andalus project, an engaging podcast series, connecting scholars across disciplines, can engage and bring new light to these questions.
Abeer Khshiboon is a scholar specializing in intersections of religiosities, indigeneities, and postcolonial studies. She received her first MA in Education from the University of Haifa, a second MA in Jewish Theology from the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam. Her doctoral research at the Theological Faculty, Humboldt University of Berlin deals with the historical trauma of Christian internally displaced Palestinians, which deepened her appreciation for local cultures of remembrance and resilience.
The interdisciplinary 4A_Lab Academy “Ecological Entanglements across Collections – Plant Lives and Beyond” is held from 4-8 November 2024 at different venues in Berlin. The academy explores the role of plant life in artistic and aesthetic practice, in human knowledge production and in theoretical-critical thinking across different time periods, communities and geographies. The concept note (below) provides some context to the research aims and vision of the academy.
Nessim Znaien is a Junior Professor at the University of Marburg, holding the (Post)colonial Maghreb Chair since April 2022. After studying history in Lyon and Paris, he defended a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne in September 2017, entitled “Les raisins de la domination. Histoire sociale de l’alcool dans la Tunisie du Protectorat (1881-1956)”. Nessim Znaien is one of the editors of the journal l’Année du Maghreb. He conducts research on the history of material culture in the colonial and post-colonial Maghreb, in particular on the history of food and cereals. A Conversation with Diana Abbani.
Dániel G. Szabó has been a Head of Department at the Municipality of Budapest responsible for participatory governance, the city council, and IT with a staff of 130 since 2019. He supervised the city’s first participatory budget process and he is currently working on bringing citizen-oriented digital services.
By Simla Dogangun. There has been a drastic change in the traditional conception of world literature in the last two decades: from a space that consists of canonical, high-cultural texts which have traditionally acted as arbiters of literary value, it has transformed into a capitalist-driven nebulous field in which literary works circulate in the same manner as goods do.
Elliot Young reminds us to consider migrants not only as victims, as the objects of others’ actions, but also as subjects with their own agency. This shift in perspective has implications for how we understand migration facilitation.
The post Beyond Chinese “Coolies” as Victims first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
Child migrants often turned to their peers to obtain certain kinds of information. Finding their peers in other towns meant turning to the migration agencies, which generated and archived revealing sources.
The post Knowledge Sharing among British Child Migrants in Canada, 1869–1950 first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
The author examines records from trade union seminars given by IG Metall to Yugoslav workers in West Germany. Initially, the classes reflected the union’s needs, but xenophobia in the 1980s led immigrant workers to express their own concerns in these meetings.
The post Trade Union Knowledge and Educational Programs for Yugoslavian Workers in West Germany, 1970s–1980s first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
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.”
The post Displacement in Stills: German-Jewish Photographers on the Move first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
Finding suitable teaching materials to prepare Jewish children and youth for their new lives in Palestine after having survived the Holocaust presented a unique set of challenges.
The post Some Challenges for Knowledge Transfer in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps after World War II first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
Using oral history, the author explores how a Polish Jewish family “used knowledge as a strategy not merely to survive but to build a new life” in what turned out to be a highly contingent transit process.
The post Knowledge as a Strategy on the Migratory Routes of Polish Jewish Survivors after World War II first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
Migration strategies and state regulative measures exist in a dialectical relationship. The author looks at state efforts to control emigration from the Habsburg monarchy and the efforts of migration facilitators to satisfy demand for passage to South America.
The post Where is the Migration Innovation? The Habsburg State vs. Facilitators of Migration first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
Emil Trinkler didn’t migrate as such, but Marjan Wardak’s article speaks to central themes on this blog. People and knowledge itself is on the move, interacting with go-betweens and yielding something new.
The post The Scientist Emil Trinkler’s Exploration across Southern Asia, 1915–1933 first appeared in Migrant Knowledge.
By Zeynep Türkyilmaz. Entering my usual keywords randomly to see what is out there in my areas of interest, I came across a diary of a Turkish soldier kept during the year 1938.
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