We are pleased to announce the publication of Eve Rosenhaft´s chapter in the recently released volume The Routledge Handbook of Information History (edited by Toni Weller, Alistair Black, Bonnie Mak & Laura Skouvig / Routledge 2026).
The chapter “Information and Mobility: Migrants and Roma as Historical Cases” (pp. 442-456), explores how information and movement intersect in European history. Eve begins by framing information as “knowledge in motion” and shows how, from the eighteenth century on, migrants’ decisions to move — where to go, how to reach it, how to settle — were deeply shaped by the information networks they accessed and created. The second half of the chapter shifts focus to Roma communities, whose mobility challenges conventional notions of migration. Rosenhaft demonstrates how Roma travellers employed informal communication systems (for example, landscape markers) and adopted technologies like telephones and postal networks — even as they were subject to state surveillance, classification and persecution. This chapter offers fresh insight into how mobility and information practices are intertwined — and how mobility may at once be enabled and constrained by the circulation of information.