What migrants relay about a host country to their country of origin is shaped by competing pressures that transform knowledge. The reports of two London-based correspondents to prerevolutionary Russia illustrate this point. Between Fact and Fiction: The Fabrication of Migrant Knowledge in Professional and Personal Correspondence Dec 16, 2021 Anna Vaninskaya
Recounts the flooding of Vanport, Oregon, in 1948, the displacement of the city's residents, and the memory culture around this event. Migration, Displacement, and Memory in Vanport, Oregon (1942–2023) May 24, 2023 Uwe Lübken
Through playtime, Jewish refugee children in Shanghai acquired specific knowledge about their new home through sources unavailable to adults refugees. The Power of Play: Jewish Refugee Children in World War II Shanghai Mar 18, 2020 Kimberly Cheng
"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