Bade Migration in European History

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75457-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Making of Europe

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a majorcause for concern in many European countries, but migrations to,from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus Bade reminds us inthis timely history.
* * A history of migration to, from and within Europe over a rangeof eras, countries and migration types.
* Examines the driving forces and currents of migration, theireffects on the cultures of both migrants and host populations,including migration policies.
* Focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularlythe period from the Second World War to the present.
* Illuminates concerns about migration in Europe today.
* Acts as a corrective to the alarmist reactions of hostpopulations in twenty-first century Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bade, Klaus

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Allison

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface.
Preface and Acknowledgements.
1. Migration during the Shift from Agrarian to IndustrialSocieties.
2. Migration in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-CenturyEurope.
3. The Period of the World Wars: Escape, Expulsion, ForcedLabour.
4. Migration and Migratory Policies in the Cold War.
5. Europe: A Continent of Immigration at the End of theTwentieth Century.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Klaus J. Bade was born in 1944 in Sierentz, Alsace-Lorraine.He is chair of modern history and director of the Institute forMigration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) atOsnabrück University. He has held visiting professorships atHarvard and Oxford and fellowships at the Netherlands Institute forAdvanced Study and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He won the PhilipMorris Research Award in 2001 and is a member of numerousscientific organizations, commissions and advisory boards as wellas head of German and international research projects. He isco-editor of several book series and journals and author and editorof more than 30 books on German and European history, includingcolonial history and population and migration past and present.
Allison Brown has been a freelance translator ofscholarly books and essays, largely in the fields of history andthe social and political sciences, especially cultural studies,since 1988. She has studied linguistics and German studies, and hasan MA in translation science. She lives in Berlin.