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
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
Describes the subgroup of migrants called “third culture kids,” the adjustments they go through, and some knowledge-based implications. Third Cultures—The (Cursed) Gold of Migrants? Dec 16, 2024 Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld
Presents the image of America conveyed in literature available in the public libraries in southern Baden, esp. Lahr in late 19th c. Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: ‘America’-related Literature in the Public Libraries of Southern Baden Jan 9, 2023 Martin Bemmann