Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: correspondence

Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale.

‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge

Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home.

Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence

Hannah Laubrock

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

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

Susanne Quitmann

Using oral history, the author explores how a Polish Jewish family "used knowledge as a strategy not merely to survive but to build a new life" in what turned out to be a highly contingent transit process.

Knowledge as a Strategy on the Migratory Routes of Polish Jewish Survivors after World War II

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj