"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
Points to manifold manifestations of migrant knowledge and reflects on how studying it can open fruitful avenues of historical research. Migrant Knowledge: An Entangled Object of Research Mar 14, 2019 Andrea Westermann
A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge. #MigKnow Notes 18 Jul 28, 2023
Explores two points in U.S. past when Jewish history and migration studies intersected: 19th-century studies of Jewish migration by local community organizations; and role played by Jewish social scientists in shaping modern migration studies. Acquiring Knowledge About Migration: The Jewish Origins of Migration Studies Sep 25, 2019 Tobias Brinkmann