In this two-part piece about Jewish refugee photographers, the authors "travel to another historical context to inquire about what migrants and refugees 'knew' and how they choose to communicate their knowledge in their photographic work." Displacement in Stills: German-Jewish Photographers on the Move May 14, 2021 Sheer Ganor and Rebekka Grossmann
As Chinese children and youth immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they had to overcome increasing restrictions on their entry. Wendy Rouse describes the knowledge they formed and passed on to succeed. Crossing Borders: Chinese Immigrant Children and the Production of Knowledge Mar 2, 2020 Wendy L. Rouse
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann
A young German in 19th-century North America bragged that his travels had enabled him to "learn and see how it goes in the world." What did he mean? What can we learn from him about migration, knowledge, and knowledge formation? Migration, Creativity, and the Construction of Knowledge Jun 3, 2019 Benjamin Hein