Knowledge on the Move

This essay outlines “migrant knowledge” as a research topic at the intersection of the history of knowledge and migration history. It opens with a discussion of the concepts bridging those subdisciplines and a survey of research that examines migrants as producers, conveyors, and translators of knowledge. After analyzing the approaches taken in the case studies that follow in this issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft, the authors sketch the constellation of issues at play in the study of migrant knowledge. Particular attention is called to the category of age and the distinctive role of young migrants as knowledge intermediaries. The authors propose a series of questions for further research.