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
Reflects on the author's own experience as a researcher and theories such as “situated knowledge,” and “relational accountability,” emotional labor feminist standpoint theory to elucidate how researchers can produce knowledge that reflects the meaningful connections and stories they encountered in the course of their research journey. Navigating the Personal in Migration Research Nov 8, 2024 Ecem Nazlı Üçok
Germans translated Buddhist texts in Germany, and they migrated to British Ceylon in order to get closer to Buddhism. Their Buddhist practices ended up changing Buddhism's relationship to texts in their South Asian home. German Migrants and the Circulation of Buddhist Knowledge between Germany and British Ceylon Apr 18, 2020 Sebastian Musch
Klotz shows how Yiddish travelogues functioned as purveyors of knowledge about destination countries for potential Polish-Jewish refugees. More than Tourism: Re-reading Yiddish Travelogues as Sources of Migrant Knowledge Oct 5, 2022 Anne-Christin Klotz