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
Looks at the ethnic, cultural, and economic factors that drove the development of Wurstfest, one of the biggest German ethnic festivals in the United States. Wurstfest: A Culinary, Cultural, and Economic Masterpiece May 30, 2024 Aiden Maliskas and Mark McShane
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 Apr 18, 2024 Abigail Escobedo and Simon Herbert
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
Bohemian immigrant Anton Schwarz impacted brewing knowledge and practice in the US by introducing knowledge from Germany, especially. He founded the US Brewers' Academy and introduced brewing with adjuncts. Migration and the Transatlantic Circulation of Brewing Knowledge: The Case of Anton Schwarz Jul 11, 2023 Jana Weiss
Recounts the flooding of Vanport, Oregon, in 1948, the displacement of the city's residents, and the memory culture around this event. Migration, Displacement, and Memory in Vanport, Oregon (1942–2023) May 24, 2023 Uwe Lübken
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
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
Looks at travelogues and guidebooks available in two Baden libraries in the 1890s to determine the knowledge of the USA, and particularly of American women, presented therein. ‘Plant-like Women and Luxury Wives’—American Women in Nineteenth-century German Travelogues and Guides Dec 23, 2022 Marie Nella Hoffmann
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 Nov 29, 2022 Hannah Laubrock
Analyzes the knowledge of America presented in the popular late 19th-c. German magazines Die Gartenlaube and Deutscher Hausschatz. Through the Information Jungle Towards the ‘Land of Freedom’: Images of ‘America’ in German Magazines in the 1870s and 1880s Nov 11, 2022 Luca Leitz-Schwoerer
Introduces a 6-part miniseries analyzing 6 sources of knowledge of the US for prospective migrants in Baden in the late 19th century. What Did They Know?: An Introduction to the Miniseries Oct 28, 2022 Martin Bemmann
Joseph Malherek has recently published the book Free-Market Socialists with Central European University Press. He also contributed an article to Dynamics of Emigration, edited by Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller and published by Berghahn Books. New Book from the Network: Central European Jewish Socialist Refugees in the US Oct 24, 2022
Klotz shows how Yiddish travelogues functioned as purveyors of knowledge about destination countries for potential Polish-Jewish refugees. More than Tourism: Re-reading Yiddish Travelogues as Sources of Migrant Knowledge Oct 5, 2022 Anne-Christin Klotz
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 Mar 29, 2021 Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
The author discusses the source value of U.S. immigrant newspapers. If there are many reasons to approach them with caution, they can still help scholars learn "what migrants knew and wanted their fellow migrants to know..." Transatlantic Migrants and Knowledge in the U.S. Immigrant Press Dec 22, 2020 Kristina E. Poznan
New book: Jan Jansen and Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge University Press 2020. New Book from the Network: Refugee Crises, 1945–2000 Nov 9, 2020
A researcher from Scotland, by way of Germany, examines a key text offered to international scholars at UC Berkeley during their initial orientation session there. Exclusion and Erasure in ‘The Values Majority Culture Americans Live By’ Sep 3, 2020 Sarah Earnshaw
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann
A young German in 19th-century North America bragged that his travels had enabled him to "learn and see how it goes in the world." What did he mean? What can we learn from him about migration, knowledge, and knowledge formation? Migration, Creativity, and the Construction of Knowledge Jun 3, 2019 Benjamin Hein
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
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