The author looks at the relationship between two famous early sociological community studies, "Middletown" and "Marienthal." The latter became Paul Lazarsfeld's "ticket out of Europe just as the continent was descending into fascism." Drifting Along: Unemployment and Interwar Social Research, from Marienthal to Muncie Dec 28, 2020 Joseph Malherek
Weiss introduces a miniseries on German migration to Texas and knowledge transfers that occurred between German settlers and Texans. ‘On to Texas’: An Introduction to the Miniseries on Texas Germans Apr 4, 2024 Jana Weiss
Migration strategies and state regulative measures exist in a dialectical relationship. The author looks at state efforts to control emigration from the Habsburg monarchy and the efforts of migration facilitators to satisfy demand for passage to South America. Where Is the Migration Innovation? The Habsburg State vs. Facilitators of Migration Mar 8, 2021 Ulf Brunnbauer
"Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century..." Of Dodos, Cane, and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai’i in the 1860s Jun 17, 2019 Nicholas B. Miller