Using oral history, the author explores how a Polish Jewish family "used knowledge as a strategy not merely to survive but to build a new life" in what turned out to be a highly contingent transit process. Knowledge as a Strategy on the Migratory Routes of Polish Jewish Survivors after World War II Mar 29, 2021 Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
Revisits Werner Schiffauer's 1991 classic, Die Migranten aus Subay, which reminds us that "migrants have lives of their own before they arrive in host societies, and they never cease to maintain ties … to the homelands they leave behind." Rebels against the Homeland: Turkish Guest Workers in 1980s West German Anthropology Oct 23, 2019 Michelle Lynn Kahn
West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives. Knowledge about the ‘Migrant Woman’ as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany Mar 29, 2022 Lauren Stokes
The author argues that history must be reconceptualized to include migrants not as extras in a society's history but as constitutive of that society. Her example comes from contemporary Swiss history. Telling History from a Migration Perspective is Not an Add-On Mar 15, 2019 Francesca Falk