From an anthropological perspective, Santisteban analyzes the collective memories about the displacements of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people (Patagonia) in the territory before and during the imposition of state borders and the nation-state. Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains Apr 14, 2025 Kaia Santisteban
Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to community strategies while challenging gender and socio-environmental inequalities. Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice Mar 7, 2025 María Belén López
Discusses the way Ecuadorian elites presented themselves at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the world, focusing on strategies to attract European and American migrants and minimize the perception of Indigenous populations and disease. Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Jan 3, 2025 Erika Rosado Valencia
Introduces the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation, which documents the human consequences of contemporary regimes of migration and border control in the United States and Mexico. Migrant Autonomy in the Face of Regimes of Deterrence: Complications and Resiliency Sep 6, 2023 Robert McKee Irwin
Describes Rudolf Holzmann's ethnomusicological work, cataloguing and orchestrating Indigenous music, in Peru after he fled there from Nazi Germany. Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America, 1935–1960 May 9, 2023 Andrea Orzoff
Presents the knowledge the German news agency Agencia Duems disseminated in Mexico and Germany about the other country, respectively. Between Germany and Mexico: Agencia Duems and the Production of Knowledge Apr 14, 2023 Itzel Toledo García
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 Mar 16, 2023 Nino Vallen
A roundup of recent network news, upcoming events, calls for papers and applications with upcoming deadlines, conference reports, and relevant publications. #MigKnow Notes 16 Feb 17, 2023
Examines ways migrants in this caravan utilized legacy and social media to coordinate and organize the journey, as well as how these media are changing migrant paradigms. The 2018 Central American Migrant Caravan: Migrant Knowledge Circulation in Digital Media Platforms Jan 31, 2023 Antonio Romero
Call for proposals for a conference to be held in Washington, DC, November 3–5, 2022. The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2021. Call: German Migrants and Migrating Knowledge in Latin American History Dec 10, 2020
Glenn Penny highlights aspects of children's go-between role in Chile not visible in histories of European migration to the United States. German schools in Chile and teachers posted there from Germany are central to this multigenerational story. Routes of Knowledge: Growing up German in Chile, 1900–50 Aug 7, 2020 H. Glenn Penny
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen examines the personal geographies of some Mennonites in Latin America who "have exercised a paradoxical degree of mobility" despite their well-known horse-and-buggy appearance. Marginal Knowledge: The Transnational Practices of Latin American Mennonites Mar 22, 2019 Ben Nobbs-Thiessen