Categorization schemes are never neutral and rarely comprehensive, but the question of how to handle them is thornier than one might think. How can we question categories and their confining walls given that those same walls also provide shelter? On the Discomfort of Shedding Ill-Fitting Categories Mar 7, 2022 Ulrike Bialas
"Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives," edited by Andrea Westermann and Onur Erdur, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 15 (2020). News from the Network: Histories of Migrant Knowledge Mar 26, 2020
Child migrants often turned to their peers to obtain certain kinds of information. Finding their peers in other towns meant turning to the migration agencies, which generated and archived revealing sources. Knowledge Sharing among British Child Migrants in Canada, 1869–1950 Jun 22, 2021 Susanne Quitmann
Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years. Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’ Mar 14, 2019 Mark R. Stoneman