Migration in European History

by Bade, Klaus; Brown, Allison

• ISBN13: 9780631189398
• ISBN10: 0631189394
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Since the opening of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries. However, migrations to, from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus J. Bade reminds us in this timely book. Bade presents a history of European migration over a range of eras, countries and migration types, examining the driving forces and currents of migration as well as their effects on the cultures of both migrants and host countries. He focuses mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, paying particular attention to the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and includes public perceptions of migration as well as migration policies. This emphasis on recent history enables the author to illuminate the problems that Europe is presently experiencing. The book touches on one of the most controversial areas of current European politics, demonstrating that the reactions of todayrs"s host populations are often alarmist, and reminding us that many Europeans are themselves descendants of earlier migrants.

Author Biography

Klaus J. Bade was born in 1944 in Sierentz, Alsace-Lorraine. He is chair of modern history and director of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard and Oxford and fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He won the Philip Morris Research Award in 2001 and is a member of numerous scientific organizations, commissions and advisory boards as well as head of German and international research projects. He is co-editor of several book series and journals and author and editor of more than 30 books on German and European history, including colonial history and population and migration past and present.

Allison Brown has been a freelance translator of scholarly books and essays, largely in the fields of history and the social and political sciences, especially cultural studies, since 1988. She has studied linguistics and German studies, and has an MA in translation science. She lives in Berlin.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	vii
Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
1 Migration during the Shift from Agrarian to Industrial Societies	1	(52)
1 Migratory Traditions and Systems at the End of the Early Modern Era	1	(32)
2 Economic Development, Population Growth and Urban Areas of In-migration in the Process of Industrialization	33	(20)
2 Migration in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Europe	53	(112)
1 Labour Migration and Business Trips	53	(28)
2 The Mass Exodus to the New World	81	(36)
3 Euro-colonial Migration in the Age of High Imperialism	117	(12)
4 Nation-states and International Migration before the First World War	129	(36)
3 The Period of the World Wars: Escape, Expulsion, Forced Labour	165	(52)
1 The First World War: Internationalization and National Exclusion	166	(15)
2 The Interwar Period: Protectionist Migration Policies and Mass Movements of Refugees	181	(23)
3 The Second World War and the Post-war Decade	204	(13)
4 Migration and Migration Policies in the Cold War	217	(59)
1 Decolonization, Colonial and Post-colonial Migration	221	(6)
2 Labour Migration: 'Guestworkers', Immigrants, 'Illegals'	227	(13)
3 National Welfare States and Transnational Labour Migration	240	(22)
4 Asylum and Refugee Migrations	262	(14)
5 Europe: A Continent of Immigration at the End of the Twentieth Century	276	(58)
1 Cultural Diversity, 'Migration Pressure' and 'Fortress Europe'	276	(24)
2 Minorities from Eastern and South-eastern Europe: Ethnic Germans, Jews, Roma	300	(15)
3 Refugees and Expellees from Eastern and South-eastern Europe: Yugoslavia, Albania, Kosovo	315	(8)
4 Intercontinental South-North Migration: Migrations from the 'Third World'	323	(11)
Notes	334	(16)
Bibliography	350	(34)
Index	384