Migration, Migration History, History

The Editors: Jan Lucassen (1947) is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Professor of International and Comparative Social History, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Leo Lucassen (1959) is Professor of Social History at Leiden University and Assistant Professor of Social History at Amsterdam University.

• Contents: Jan Lucassen/Leo Lucassen: Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives – Leslie Page Moch: Dividing Time: An Analytical Framework for Migration History Periodization – Nancy L. Green: The Comparative Method and Poststructural Structuralism: New Perspectives for Migration Studies – Dirk Hoerder: Segmented Macrosystems and Networking Individuals: The Balancing Functions of Migration Processes – David Eltis: Seventeenth Century Migration and the Slave Trade: The English Case in Comparative Perspective – Pieter C. Emmer: Was Migration Beneficial? – Ralph Shlomowitz: Coerced and Free Migration from the United Kingdom to Australia, and Indentured Labour Migration from India and the Pacific Islands to Various Destinations: Issues, Debates, and New Evidence – Eric Richards: Migration to Colonial Australia: Paradigms and Disjunctions – Donna Gabaccia: The «Yellow Peril» and the «Chinese of Europe»: Global Perspectives on Race and Labor, 1815-1930 – Arjan de Haan: Migration on the Border of Free and Unfree Labour: Workers in Calcutta’s Jute Industry, 1900-1990 – Leo Lucassen: Eternal Vagrants? State Formation, Migration, and Travelling Groups in Western-Europe, 1350-1914 – Ida Altman: Moving Around and Moving On: Spanish Emigration in the Sixteenth Century – Georg Fertig: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Migration and Early German Anti-Migration Ideology – Aristide R. Zolberg: The Great Wall Against China: Responses to the First Immigration Crisis, 1885-1925 – Colin Holmes: Hostile Images of Immigrants and Refugees in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain – Kenneth Lunn: Immigration and Reaction in Britain, 1880-1950: Rethinking the «Legacy of Empire» – Robin Cohen: Shaping the Nation, Excluding the Other: The Deportation of Migrants from Britain.

«This is a classic, perhaps the classic of migration history. First published in 1997, it has received two more editions in 1999 and 2005 in the most respectable series on "International and Comparative Social History" issued by the International Institute for Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. [...] The bibliography of more than 1000 titles is a treasury in itself. With this book the IISH has erected a monumental starting point to a stream of literature on migration still flowing strongly.» (Jörn Janssen, CLR News)