A young German in 19th-century North America bragged that his travels had enabled him to "learn and see how it goes in the world." What did he mean? What can we learn from him about migration, knowledge, and knowledge formation? Migration, Creativity, and the Construction of Knowledge Jun 3, 2019 Benjamin Hein
Recounts the flooding of Vanport, Oregon, in 1948, the displacement of the city's residents, and the memory culture around this event. Migration, Displacement, and Memory in Vanport, Oregon (1942–2023) May 24, 2023 Uwe Lübken
Thinks about how migrant biographies and autobiographies can be used to understand associated knowledge transfer and translation processes, including their "success" or "failure." Examples are from Australia after World War Two. Migrant Biographies as a Prism for Explaining Transnational Knowledge Transfers Oct 7, 2019 Philipp Strobl
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