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
During the interwar period and much of World War II, the Parisian café Le Bosphore served as a focal point of sociability and knowledge exchange for Sephardi Jews from the former Ottoman Empire. Cafés as Sites of Migrant Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Ottoman Jews in Interwar Paris Oct 21, 2021 Robin Buller
The "Qur'an school problem" in West Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s was in many ways a product of the migrant experts who bemoaned it, the teachers on loan from Turkey. Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany Aug 14, 2020 Brian Van Wyck
The authors discuss disparagement practices using the "invectivity" approach developed at the TU Dresden. Shaming helps demarcate in-groups from out-groups, feeding communication loops and producing emotions beyond the immediate parties involved. Invective Loops: How Shaming Migrants Shapes Knowledge Orders Aug 24, 2021 Dagmar Ellerbrock and Swen Steinberg