Razak Khan looks at the role Islam and Muslims played for Hirschfeld in his 1933 travelogue, in which he described his encounters in Indonesia, India, and the Near East. According to Khan, "the tolerance and coexistence [Hirschfeld] encountered on his journey taught him how closely connected the issues of sexual and cultural diversity were." (2,400 words)
Tobias Brinkmann looks into how "studying Jewish migration" began "outside the academic sphere" in the 19th century. He also notes how a number of Jewish social scientists "[shaped] the conceptual foundations of migration studies in the United States during the middle decades of the twentieth century." (2,282 words)
Miriam Gutekunst reflects on the migrant knowledge revealed in Alex Pitstra's film about his complicated transnational family relationships, Bezness as Usual. (1,736 words)
Benjamin Hein reflects on the nature of knowledge and knowledge formation in connection with a German migrant to North America in the mid-nineteenth century. What did it mean that this man, Christian Bönsel, could brag that he had been able to "learn and see how it goes in the world"? (1,455 words)
