Revisits Werner Schiffauer's 1991 classic, Die Migranten aus Subay, which reminds us that "migrants have lives of their own before they arrive in host societies, and they never cease to maintain ties … to the homelands they leave behind." Rebels against the Homeland: Turkish Guest Workers in 1980s West German Anthropology Oct 23, 2019 Michelle Lynn Kahn
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
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
"Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives," edited by Andrea Westermann and Onur Erdur, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 15 (2020). News from the Network: Histories of Migrant Knowledge Mar 26, 2020