Trying to understand German migration to the United States in the nineteenth century raises the problem of how the U.S. migration regime shaped the data that researchers rely on in the first place. Why the History of Knowledge Matters in a Digital History of Migration Sep 19, 2021 Sebastian F. Bondzio
Elliot Young reminds us to consider migrants not only as victims, as the objects of others' actions, but also as subjects with their own agency. This shift in perspective has implications for how we understand migration facilitation, among other things. Beyond Chinese “Coolies” as Victims Jul 14, 2021 Elliot Young
Makes a case for not prejudging people smugglers in history or the testimony they left behind in state police records, using the example of Eastern and Central Europe in the interwar period. Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth Oct 30, 2019 Allison Schmidt
"Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century..." Of Dodos, Cane, and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai’i in the 1860s Jun 17, 2019 Nicholas B. Miller