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 looks at the relationship between two famous early sociological community studies, "Middletown" and "Marienthal." The latter became Paul Lazarsfeld's "ticket out of Europe just as the continent was descending into fascism." Drifting Along: Unemployment and Interwar Social Research, from Marienthal to Muncie Dec 28, 2020 Joseph Malherek
Describes Rudolf Holzmann's ethnomusicological work, cataloguing and orchestrating Indigenous music, in Peru after he fled there from Nazi Germany. Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America, 1935–1960 May 9, 2023 Andrea Orzoff
Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives. Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political Jun 20, 2025 Amelie Harbisch