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 author argues that history must be reconceptualized to include migrants not as extras in a society's history but as constitutive of that society. Her example comes from contemporary Swiss history. Telling History from a Migration Perspective is Not an Add-On Mar 15, 2019 Francesca Falk
"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
The author examines records from trade union seminars given by IG Metall to Yugoslav workers in West Germany. Initially, the classes reflected the union's needs, but xenophobia in the 1980s led immigrant workers to express their own concerns in these meetings. Trade Union Knowledge and Educational Programs for Yugoslavian Workers in West Germany, 1970s–1980s May 27, 2021 Matthias Thaden