Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: migration history

A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 18

Compares two textbooks for schoolchildren in Baden in the late nineteenth century and presents the ideas they conveyed about the US.

A Cautionary Tale: Baden’s Late Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Their Portrayal of America

Marie Nella Hoffmann

During the interwar period and much of World War II, the Parisian café Le Bosphore served as a focal point of sociability and knowledge exchange for Sephardi Jews from the former Ottoman Empire.

Cafés as Sites of Migrant Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Ottoman Jews in Interwar Paris

"Migration" is not a stable, preexisting category but rather a product of societal processes that shape what the term comprises. We must take these entanglements with the past into account in our present-day research.

Not a Given Object: What Historians Can Learn from the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies

Isabella Löhr
Christiane Reinecke

Workshop report for the Third Annual Bucerius Young Scholar Forum, held at the GHI Pacific Regional Office at Berkeley in October 2019.

Report: Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Levke Harders
Andrea Westermann