Surveys the research on current efforts to leverage professional knowledge and skills among migrant populations for development in their countries of origin. Pays particular attention to a program called Connecting Diaspora for Development. Research on Diaspora Knowledge Transfer within a Temporary Return Program Oct 16, 2019 Charlotte Mueller
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen examines the personal geographies of some Mennonites in Latin America who "have exercised a paradoxical degree of mobility" despite their well-known horse-and-buggy appearance. Marginal Knowledge: The Transnational Practices of Latin American Mennonites Mar 22, 2019 Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann
Trying to understand German migration to the United States in the nineteenth century raises the problem of how the U.S. migration regime shaped the data that researchers rely on in the first place. Why the History of Knowledge Matters in a Digital History of Migration Sep 19, 2021 Sebastian F. Bondzio