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
Explores two points in U.S. past when Jewish history and migration studies intersected: 19th-century studies of Jewish migration by local community organizations; and role played by Jewish social scientists in shaping modern migration studies. Acquiring Knowledge About Migration: The Jewish Origins of Migration Studies Sep 25, 2019 Tobias Brinkmann
Irawati Karve earned her doctorate in interwar Berlin before returning to India, where she pursued a career in anthropology. Discussing her work is difficult because she both rejected and adopted claims from the now infamous Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. The Contradictions of Irawati Karve: A Conversation Nov 9, 2021 Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Urmilla Deshpande
How to name people who move their lives across borders willingly or under duress? Eliyana Adler discusses the diverse terms contemporaries used to identify the various groups of Polish Jews who survived World War II as refugees in the Soviet Union. What’s in a Name? How Titles Construct and Convey Knowledge about Migrants Jun 18, 2020 Eliyana R. Adler