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
Emil Trinkler didn't migrate as such, but Marjan Wardak's article speaks to central themes on this blog. People and knowledge itself are on the move, interacting with go-betweens and yielding something new. The Scientist Emil Trinkler’s Exploration across South Asia, 1915–1933 Jan 29, 2021 Marjan Wardaki
Describes Rudolf Holzmann's ethnomusicological work, cataloguing and orchestrating Indigenous music, in Peru after he fled there from Nazi Germany. Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America, 1935–1960 May 9, 2023 Andrea Orzoff
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