Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective

Ulbe Bosma, Ph.D (1995) is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and professor in international and comparative social history at VU University. He published five monographs, edited volumes and many articles on colonial history, plantations and migration. Forthcoming is his monograph, The Asian sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia: industrial production 1770-2020, to appear at Cambridge University Press in 2013.Gijs Kessler, Ph.D (2001), European University Institute, is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He is co-editor of A Dream Deferred: New Studies in Russian and Soviet Labour History (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008) and has published in a number of journals, including Cahiers du Monde Russe, Continuity and Change, and The History of the Family.Leo Lucassen Ph.D (1990) is Professor of Social History at the Leiden University. He is co-editor of Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary approaches (Leiden, Brill 2010) and published in 2005 The Immigrant Threat (Urbana, UIP). He has published a.o. in the International Review of Social History, the Journal of Global History, Social History, and History of the Family.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsMigration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective: An Introduction, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Leo LucassenSECTION 1: CREATING THE POLITYMobility and Belonging in Antiquity: Greeks and Barbarians on the Move in the Northern Black Sea Region, Christel MüllerMigration, Belonging and Identity in the Mesa Verde Region of the Southwestern United States, Mark D. VarienFrom the Senegal River to Siin: The Archaeology of Sereer Migrations in North-Western Senegambia, Ibrahima Thiaw SECTION 2: POLITIES SEEKING MEMBERSSocio-political Structure, Membership and Mobility in the Pre-Modern Malay World: The Case of Singapore in the 14th Century, Derek Heng Favouring Foreign Traders? The Venetian Republic and the Accommodation of Netherlandish Merchants in the late 16th and 17th Centuries, Maartje van GelderSECTION 3: POLITIES TAKEN OVERTo Become Chinese: Cultural Consciousness and Political Legitimacy in Early Medieval China (220-681), Mu-Chou Poo“Becoming Roman, Becoming Barbarian”: Roman Citizenship and the Assimilation of Barbarians into the Late Roman World, Ralph W. Mathisen SECTION 4: EXPANDING AND CONSOLIDATING THE EMPIREKings, Kinsmen and Others: The Theory and Practice of Andean Allegiances, Susan Elizabeth RamírezThe Possibilities of Empire: Russian Sectarian Migration to South Caucasia and the Refashioning of Social Boundaries, Nicholas Breyfogle ReferencesAbout the AuthorsAuthors IndexGeographical IndexSubject Index