"Migration" is not a stable, preexisting category but rather a product of societal processes that shape what the term comprises. We must take these entanglements with the past into account in our present-day research. Not a Given Object: What Historians Can Learn from the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies Oct 27, 2020 Isabella Löhr and Christiane Reinecke
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Using the example of a group of refugees from Czechoslovakia in Canada during World War II, the author analyzes knowledge transfers through migration and their limitations in changing political and economic environments. Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s Jul 17, 2025 Swen Steinberg
"Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century..." Of Dodos, Cane, and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai’i in the 1860s Jun 17, 2019 Nicholas B. Miller