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
Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale. ‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge Dec 8, 2022 Charlie Knight
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
Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to community strategies while challenging gender and socio-environmental inequalities. Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice Mar 7, 2025 María Belén López