Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: colonial contexts

Examines the sources of knowledge about the Comanches available to John Meusebach when he sought to make a treaty with them.

Gaining Knowledge about the Comanches: Meusebach’s Path Towards a Notable Treaty

Abigail Escobedo and Simon Herbert

Examines The Indian Vocabulary (1788) produced in Britain for colonial civil servants in order to discern the ambiguous relationship toward India and British efforts to define itself in relation to its colony therein.

From Nabob to Saheb: Reflections of British Rule in The Indian Vocabulary

Here we share a call for applications for the Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at UC Berkeley, GHI Pacific Office, September 2023, as it relates closely to our blog's topic.

Seventh Bucerius Young Scholars Forum—Indigenous Migration

The intimate and personal network of an imperial official's well-educated wife who migrated with her husband temporarily to the colonies served as a conduit for the sharing and formation of knowledge about Britain’s empire in the late eighteenth century.

Colonial Correspondence and Knowledge Production: Elizabeth Simcoe and her Personal Networks

Protestant missionary schools affected the construction of "indigenous knowledge" in complex ways, including through their role in the emergence of local go-betweens, who carried this knowledge into colonial contexts.

The Formation of Indigenous Knowledge in Protestant Mission Schools, 1900–1930

Elisabeth Engel

The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself.

Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts