Documents from the Qing dynasty's borderlands are crucial for understanding migrations in these regions, but accessing and contextualizing them is complicated by a unique set of political and archival challenges from the past and present. The ‘Manchurian Archive’ and the Discourse on ‘Lost’ and ‘Returned’ Documents in China Mar 12, 2022 Christina Philips
The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself. Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts Aug 5, 2020 Simone Lässig
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
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