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Dan Thy Nguyen

Director, actor, essayist Hamburg, Germany research focus Archive and Memory Political Culture Young Migrants

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Related Blog Posts 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.

Trade Union Knowledge and Educational Programs for Yugoslavian Workers in West Germany, 1970s–1980s

May 27, 2021 Matthias Thaden Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale.

‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge

Dec 8, 2022 Charlie Knight A roundup of recent work, relevant publications, resources, and calls for papers related to migrant knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 15

Dec 19, 2022 The author interrogates a mid-nineteenth-century map for German emigrants, using it as a way to talk about the central concept behind this blog, "migrant knowledge".

An 1853 Map for German-Speaking Emigrants

Jan 30, 2022 Mark R. Stoneman