The author interrogates a mid-nineteenth-century map for German emigrants, using it as a way to talk about the central concept behind this blog, "migrant knowledge". An 1853 Map for German-Speaking Emigrants Jan 30, 2022 Mark R. Stoneman
Schütz shows how GDR officials' knowledge of violence against guest workers failed to change their perception of them or the nature of the country. Instead, they blamed the workers. Violence against Migrants in the GDR and the Lack of Epistemic Impact Aug 5, 2022 Johannes Schütz
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. Between Fact and Fiction: The Fabrication of Migrant Knowledge in Professional and Personal Correspondence Dec 16, 2021 Anna Vaninskaya
Trying to understand German migration to the United States in the nineteenth century raises the problem of how the U.S. migration regime shaped the data that researchers rely on in the first place. Why the History of Knowledge Matters in a Digital History of Migration Sep 19, 2021 Sebastian F. Bondzio