Studies in Global Migration History – serie
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19 produkter
Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective
An Introduction
Av Ulbe Bosma
Inbunden, 2013
2387 kr
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In Migration and Membership Regimes editors Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler and Leo Lucassen bring together ten essays in an analytical framework which looks beyond the Transatlantic migration of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a deliberate attempt to incorporate the experience of earlier …
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations
A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
Av Dirk Hoerder
Inbunden, 2013
3286 kr
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Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at …
Globalising Migration History
The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries)
Av Jan Lucassen
Inbunden, 2014
3076 kr
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Globalizing Migration History is a major step forward in comparative global migration history. Looking at the period 1500-2000 it presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration …
International Migrations in the Victorian Era
Av Marie Ruiz
Inbunden, 2018
3210 kr
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On account of its remarkable reach as well as its variety of schemes and features, migration in the Victorian era is a paramount chapter of the history of worldwide migrations and diasporas. Indeed, Victorian Britain was both a land of emigration and immigration. International Migrations in the …
Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers
Av Dirk Hoerder
Inbunden, 2015
3522 kr
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Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their …
Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present
Inbunden, 2015
2902 kr
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Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913. Supplemented with the interviewees’ private documents and working from U.S. and Italian archives, Christa Wirth documents a century of …
Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers
Av Dirk Hoerder
Häftad, 2015
1302 kr
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Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their …
Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire
Av Luuk Ligt
Inbunden, 2016
3654 kr
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Until recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that …
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
Inbunden, 2015
2418 kr
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In Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940 scholars from Europe and Latin America study the experiences of workers, sailors, whalers, landowners, intellectuals and investors who migrated from Norway to Latin America during the age of mass migration. One recurrent …
Across the Danube: Southeastern Europeans and Their Travelling Identities (17th–19th C.)
Inbunden, 2016
2338 kr
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The Danube has been a border and a bridge for migrants and goods since antiquity. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, commercial networks were formed between the Ottoman Empire and Central and Eastern Europe creating diaspora communities. This gradually led to economic and cultural transfers …
From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945
Av Yin Cao
Inbunden, 2017
2069 kr
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From Policemen to Revolutionaries uncovers the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yin Cao argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated …
Peregrine Profession
Transnational Mobility of Nordic Engineers and Architects, 1880-1930
Inbunden, 2018
2445 kr
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In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more than …
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone
Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E.
Inbunden, 2020
2553 kr
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The transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and …
Borders and Mobility Control in and between Empires and Nation-States
Av Jovan Pealj
Inbunden, 2022
1933 kr
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In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states …
Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan
Inbunden, 2022
2012 kr
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In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that …
Migrant Actors Worldwide
Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left-Wing Strategies
Av Dirk Hoerder
Inbunden, 2024
2459 kr
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“Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move – often in large numbers – to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour”. This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour, …
Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
Inbunden, 2025
2412 kr
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This volume explores the forced migration of people, defined briefly as when individuals or groups are compelled to leave their home countries due to various (though predominantly political) factors, to the UK and the British Empire from 1815 to 1949. With a uniquely international and inclusive …
History of Displaced Knowledge: Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia
Inbunden, 2025
2367 kr
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This book follows ideas and knowledge that migrated in the cultural baggage of Austrian refugees, who fled to Australia in 1938 and 1939 because of National Socialism. By telling and comparing the stories of twenty-six different lives, it highlights the processes of acquisition, transportation, …
Black Girls
Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies
Inbunden, 2014
2209 kr
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In today’s Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and the …
