"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
Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale. ‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge Dec 8, 2022 Charlie Knight
Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home. Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence Nov 29, 2022 Hannah Laubrock
Protestant missionary schools affected the construction of "indigenous knowledge" in complex ways, including through their role in the emergence of local go-betweens, who carried this knowledge into colonial contexts. The Formation of Indigenous Knowledge in Protestant Mission Schools, 1900–1930 Aug 10, 2020 Elisabeth Engel