Migration and world history: Reaching a new frontier

International Review of Social History

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-96

  Lucassen, Leo ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/S0020859006002793     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. Leslie Page Moch, Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, IN, 1992). In 2003 a second (paperback) edition appeared with a revised last chapter.
2. For an overview, see Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen (eds), Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives (Berne [etc.], 1997, 2nd edn 1999, 3rd edn 2005).
3. See also Klaus J. Bade, Migration in European History (Oxford, 2003),
4. and Dirk Hoerder and Leslie Page Moch (eds), European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives (Durham, NC, 1996).
5. Important case studies are James H. Jackson, Migration and Urbanization in the Ruhr Valley, 1821-1914 (Boston, MA, 1997);
6. Steven Hochstadt, Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820-1989 (Ann Arbor, MI, 1999)
7. and Colin Pooley and Jean Turnbull, Migration and Mobility in Britain since the Eighteenth Century (London, 1998).
8. Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002).
9. Recently German and Austrian scholars have made considerable progress on the (early) Middle Ages: Verena Postel, Die Ursprünge Europas. Migration und Integration im frühen Mittelalter (Stuttgart, 2004);
10. Matthias Knaut and Dieter Quast, Die Völkerwanderung. Europa zwischen Antike und Mittelalter (Stuttgart, 2005);
11. and Walter Pohl, Die Völkerwanderung. Eroberung und Integration (Stuttgart, 2005).
12. For the Roman Empire, see D. Noy, Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers (London, 2000).
13. P.C. Emmer and M. Mörner (eds), European Expansion and Migration: Essays on the Intercontinental Migration from Africa, Asia, and Europe (New York, 1992).
14. See Leo Lucassen, "Where To Go from Here? New Perspectives on Global Migration History", International Review of Social History, 29 (2004), pp. 505-510;
15. and Patrick Manning, "Migration: A Millennium of Meso-Level Analysis", International Review of Social History, 29 (2004), pp. 500-504.
16. For a general critique on the scattered nature of historical migration studies, see Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, "Introduction", in idem, Migration, Migration History, History, pp. 1-38.
17. A good example is T.R. Gottschang and D. Lary, Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000).
18. Patrick Manning, Migration in World History (New York [etc.], 2005). The book appeared in the series "Themes in World History", edited by Peter N. Stearns.
19. Adam McKeown, "Global Migration, 1846-1940", Journal of World History, 15 (2004), pp. 155-189.
20. See also his dissertation, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936 (Chicago, IL [etc.], 2001).
21. See especially Jeffrey G. Williamson and Timothy J. Hatton (eds), International Migration 1850-1939: An Economic Survey (Milan, 1994),
22. and Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy (Cambridge, MA, 1999), pp. 119-166.
23. Many studies have appeared on the Atlantic, most of which implicitly assume that this was a unique phenomenon. This literature is reviewed in McKeown, "Global Migration, 1846-1940".
24. See also Walter Nugent, Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 (Bloomington, IN, 1992).
25. Such as Imre Ferenczi and Walter Willcox (eds), International Migrations, 2 vols (New York, 1929 and 1931);
26. Donald Treadgold, The Great Siberian Migration: Government and Peasant in Resettlement from Emancipation to the First World War (Princeton, NJ, 1957);
27. Gottschang and Lary, Swallows and Settlers;
28. Kingsley Davis, The Population of India and Pakistan (New York, 1951);
29. Kernial Singh Sandhu, Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957) (Cambridge, 1969);
30. Nalini Ranjan Chakravarty, The Indian Minority in Burma (London, 1971);
31. G. William Skinner, Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History (Ithaca, NY, 1957).
32. Furthermore, McKeown used emigration data from Hong Kong and Chinese customs reports, statistics for the Dutch East Indies from 1900-1938 and for French Indochina from 1923-1940. For a complete survey of his sources see the appendix to his "Global Migration, 1846-1940".
33. Most historians have argued that as far as Asians moved, they were coerced, especially as indentured (coolie) labourers: see, for example, Lydia Potts, The World Labour Market: A History of Migration (London, 1990), p. 70;
34. and Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact, pp. 366-367, 377, and 389:
35. McKeown, "Global Migration, 1846-1940", p. 170;
36. Jan Breman, Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia (Oxford, 1989).
37. McKeown, "Global Migration, 1846-1940", p. 171.
38. Here he links up with Manning, Migration in World History.
39. See for a broad recent assessment, Aristide Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Cambridge, MA, 2006).
40. For France see Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 (Urbana, IL [etc.], 2005).
41. Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "When Did Globalisation Begin?", European Review of Economic History, 6 (2002), pp. 23-50.
42. Moch, Moving Europeans.
43. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, NJ, 2000).
44. See, for example, David Feldman, "Was the Nineteenth Century a Golden Age for Immigrants? The Changing Articulation of National, Local and Voluntary Controls", in Andreas Fahrmeir, Olivier Faron, and Patrick Weil (eds), Migration Control in the North Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period (New York [etc.], 2003), pp. 167-177;
45. and idem, "Migrants, Immigrants and Welfare from the old Poor Law to the Welfare State", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 13 (2003), pp. 79-104.
46. See also Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat, pp. 27-49.
47. Mohapatra is a specialist in Indian labour history and the migration of Indians to the West Indies: see a.o. Prabhu Mohapatra, "Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920: Immobilizing Plantation Labor", in Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2004), pp. 455-480.
48. Although return migration rates of European migrants who went to the Americas were high for some nationalities (especially Italians), the overall picture is that most migrants stayed; Mark Wyman, Round-Trip America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930 (Ithaca, NY, 1993).
49. Ulbe Bosma, "Citizens of Empire: Some Comparative Observations on the Evolution of Creole Nationalism in Colonial Indonesia", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46 (2004), pp. 656-681;
50. idem and Roger Knight, "Global Factory and Local Field: Convergence and Divergence in the International Cane-Sugar Industry, 1850-1940", International Review of Social History, 49 (2004), pp. 1-26.
51. Sucheta Mazumdar, Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market (Cambridge, MA, 1998);
52. idem and Vasant Kaiwar (eds), Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orientalism and Nation (Durham, NC, 2003).