Migration History in World History

Jan Lucassen, Ph.D. (1984) in History, University of Utrecht, is senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and professor in social history at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on migration and labour history, including Global Labour History: a state of the art (Peter Lang, 2006).Leo Lucassen, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Leiden, is professor of Social History at the Leiden University. He has published extensively on migration and integration, including The Immigrant Threat (University of Illinois Press, 2005). Patrick Manning, Ph D. (1969) in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published widely on African history, migration and global history, including Migration in World History (Routledge, 2005).

• ForewordPART I. HISTORICAL APPROACHES1. Migration History: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen & Patrick ManningPART II. BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2. Population Genetics and the Migration of Modern Humans (Homo sapiens), Peter de Knijff3. A Brief Introduction to Geochemical Methods used in Assessing Migration in Biological Anthropology, Shomarka KeitaPART III. LINGUISTIC APPROACHES4. Prehistoric Migration and Colonization Processes in Oceania: A View from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology, Andrew Pawley5. Linguistic Testimony and Migration Histories, Christopher Ehret6. The Archaeo-Linguistics of Migration, Patrick McConvellPART IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES7. Ancient Immigrants: Archaeology and Maritime Migrations, Jon M. Erlandson8. The Family Factor in Migration Decisions, Jan KokReferencesIndex

Reading this book is rewarding in many ways. It raises the awareness that migration is an intrinsic feature of human existence, indicative of as well as instrumental to development. The confrontation with 200,000 years’ development of the ‘homo sapiens’ puts the present perception of ‘globalisation’ into a perspective, which opens up a considerably wider scope for the future. The confrontation of the diverse approaches not only widens our horizon but serves, at the same time, as an antidote against prejudices based on incidental single aspects."Jörn Janssen, CLR-News, No 2 (2010) 75-76.Gelungen ist [es] den Herausgebern mit der Fokussierung auf die historischen Migrationsprozesse in Ozeanien, Afrika und den Amerikas der letzten 100.000 Jahre. Nachhaltig zeigen die Beiträge des Sammelbandes, dass Migration eher das "außergewöhnliche Normale" als die aktuelle Ausnahme darstellt; oder, wie es die Herausgeber formulieren würden: World History ist Migration HistoryAndreas Huebner, KULT_online, No 27 (2011)