The author expected to find files in Paris for his study of Franco-Yiddishness in the interwar period, but they had wandered elsewhere. His surprise led him to consider "the migratory history of knowledge and knowledge-making." Following the Archives: Migrating Documents and their Changing Meanings Apr 18, 2019 Nick Underwood
Germans translated Buddhist texts in Germany, and they migrated to British Ceylon in order to get closer to Buddhism. Their Buddhist practices ended up changing Buddhism's relationship to texts in their South Asian home. German Migrants and the Circulation of Buddhist Knowledge between Germany and British Ceylon Apr 18, 2020 Sebastian Musch
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann
The "Qur'an school problem" in West Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s was in many ways a product of the migrant experts who bemoaned it, the teachers on loan from Turkey. Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany Aug 14, 2020 Brian Van Wyck