Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Andrea Wiegeshoff

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Cultural Studies

University of Marburg,

Germany

(Cross) Borders

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Andrea Wiegeshoff explorers the interactions of different ways of knowing at the moment of immigration using the 1914 example of Wong Kum Wo in Honolulu.

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What migrants relay about a host country to their country of origin is shaped by competing pressures that transform knowledge. The reports of two London-based correspondents to prerevolutionary Russia illustrate this point.

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