Causes and Consequences of Human Migration

by Crawford, Michael H.; Campbell, Benjamin C.

• ISBN13: 9781107012868
• ISBN10: 1107012864
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-17
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Migration is a widespread human activity dating back to the origin of our species. Advances in genetic sequencing have greatly increased our ability to track prehistoric and historic population movements and allowed migration to be described both as a biological and socioeconomic process. Presenting the latest research, Causes and Consequences of Human Migration provides an evolutionary perspective on human migration past and present. Crawford and Campbell have brought together leading thinkers who provide examples from different world regions, using historical, demographic and genetic methodologies, and integrating archaeological, genetic and historical evidence to reconstruct large-scale population movements in each region. Other chapters discuss established questions such as the Basque origins and the Caribbean slave trade. More recent evidence on migration in ancient and present day Mexico is also presented. Pitched at a graduate audience, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in human population movements.

Table of Contents

Preface

Perspectives on human migration: introduction

Theory

Genetic evidence concerning the origins and dispersals of modern humans

The biology of human migration: the ape that won't commit?

Evolutionary basis of human migration

Evolutionary consequences of human migration: genetic, historic and archaeological perspectives in the Caribbean and Aleutian Islands

Kin-structured migration and colonization

The role of diet and epigenetics in migration: molecular mechanisms underlying the consequences of change

Geography and Migration

Africa

Population structure and migration in Africa: correlations between archeological, linguistic, and genetic data

Human migrations in North Africa

Identity, voice, community: new African immigrants to Kansas

The African colonial migration into Mexico: history and biological consequences

Europe

Demic expansion or cultural diffusion: migration and Basque origins

Consequences of migration among the Roma: immunoglobulin markers as a tool in investigating population relationships

Migration, assimilation and admixture: genes of a Scot?

Mennonite migrations: genetic and demographic consequences

Asia

Human migratory history: through the looking glass of genetic geography of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Peopling the Tibetan plateau: migrants, genes, and genetic adaptations

Migration, globalization, instability and Chinese in Peru

The great blue highway: human migration in the Pacific

Americas

Migration of pre-Hispanic and contemporary human Mexican populations

A review of the Tupi expansion in the Amazon

Molecular consequences of migration and urbanization in the Peruvian Amazonia

Migration in Afro-Brazilian rural communities: crossing historical, demographic, and genetic data

Caribbean

Indentured migration, gene flow and the formation of the Indo-Costa Rican population

Causes and consequences of migration to the Caribbean islands and Central America: an evolutionary success story

Why do we migrate?: A retrospective

Index

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