"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
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
Thinks about how migrant biographies and autobiographies can be used to understand associated knowledge transfer and translation processes, including their "success" or "failure." Examples are from Australia after World War Two. Migrant Biographies as a Prism for Explaining Transnational Knowledge Transfers Oct 7, 2019 Philipp Strobl
Julie Weise asks how migrants responded to state-driven mandates to control and shape labor migration in the middle decades of the twentieth century. In Sickness and in Health: Migrant Citizenships in the Postwar Years Feb 7, 2020 Julie M. Weise