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
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
Andrea Wiegeshoff explorers the interactions of different ways of knowing at the moment of immigration using the 1914 example of Wong Kum Wo in Honolulu. Clashing Ways of Knowing at the Moment of Immigration Dec 16, 2019 Andrea Wiegeshoff
Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years. Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’ Mar 14, 2019 Mark R. Stoneman