Discusses the way Ecuadorian elites presented themselves at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the world, focusing on strategies to attract European and American migrants and minimize the perception of Indigenous populations and disease. Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Jan 3, 2025 Erika Rosado Valencia
Elliot Young reminds us to consider migrants not only as victims, as the objects of others' actions, but also as subjects with their own agency. This shift in perspective has implications for how we understand migration facilitation, among other things. Beyond Chinese “Coolies” as Victims Jul 14, 2021 Elliot Young
Andrea Wiegeshoff explorers the interactions of different ways of knowing at the moment of immigration using the 1914 example of Wong Kum Wo in Honolulu. Clashing Ways of Knowing at the Moment of Immigration Dec 16, 2019 Andrea Wiegeshoff
"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