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Based on the author’s personal experience with physical migration across national boundaries, this paper explores the concept of migration as a metaphor for the crossing of other  boundaries in the learning and using of German and other languages: linguistic, cultural, epistemic, disciplinary, literary, and communicative. Key concepts in this migration are: translanguaging, transknowledging, symbolic competence, and literariness.  Developing a migrant mindset involves reinstating historicity and subjectivity to the foreign language educational enterprise.