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
The author discusses the source value of U.S. immigrant newspapers. If there are many reasons to approach them with caution, they can still help scholars learn "what migrants knew and wanted their fellow migrants to know..." Transatlantic Migrants and Knowledge in the U.S. Immigrant Press Dec 22, 2020 Kristina E. Poznan
Emil Trinkler didn't migrate as such, but Marjan Wardak's article speaks to central themes on this blog. People and knowledge itself are on the move, interacting with go-betweens and yielding something new. The Scientist Emil Trinkler’s Exploration across South Asia, 1915–1933 Jan 29, 2021 Marjan Wardaki
"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