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
Categorization schemes are never neutral and rarely comprehensive, but the question of how to handle them is thornier than one might think. How can we question categories and their confining walls given that those same walls also provide shelter? On the Discomfort of Shedding Ill-Fitting Categories Mar 7, 2022 Ulrike Bialas
West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives. Knowledge about the ‘Migrant Woman’ as an Alibi for State Inaction in the Federal Republic of Germany Mar 29, 2022 Lauren Stokes
Presents the arguments from Stielike's longer German work on the politics of knowledge production in Migration Studies, examining 3 distinct types of migration research. The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies Jun 18, 2024 Laura Stielike