ISBN:
9780521895866
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (812 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities : From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
DDC:
304.8094/03
Keywords:
Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; Encyclopedias
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Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Encyclopedias
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Immigrants ; Europe ; History ; Encyclopedias
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MIGRATION AND MINORITIES IN EUROPE: From the 17th Century to the Present; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION; PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION; THE ENCYCLOPEDIA: IDEA, CONCEPT, REALIZATION; TERMINOLOGIES AND CONCEPTS OF MIGRATION RESEARCH; The process of migration: forms and classifications, regimes and systems; Forms and classifications; Migration regimes; Divergent migration regimes in the early modern period, 1500-1800; 1. Liberal migration regimes in the Dutch and the Venetian republics
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Strong immigration regulations in most dynastic states3. Large territorial states inviting settlement migrations; 4. The Ottoman Empire combining dedicated settlement policy and a large internal mobility; From indirect to direct rule and the slow convergence of migration regimes, 1800-1900; The migration regime in liberal welfare states of the 20th century; A new regime emerging at the end of the 20th century?; Migration systems; Adjustment to the receiving society; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES; COUNTRIES; NORTHERN EUROPE; DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, FINLAND
Description / Table of Contents:
The territory and its bordersImmigration in the era of mercantilism in the 17th and 18th centuries; Nation building the Nordic way; Labor migration and transatlantic emigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries; Refugees and other immigrants from World War I until the 1950s; Labor migrations after the World War II; Refugee and labor migration, and integration policies since the 1970s; REFERENCES; WESTERN EUROPE; GREAT BRITAIN; Great Britain and its borders; Early population movements in Britain during the 16th and 17th centuries; Empire building and migration effects in the 18th century
Description / Table of Contents:
The 19th century: the beginning of "mass migration"Labor migrants and refugees in the 20th century; REFERENCES; IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND; The country and its borders; Demographic flux and the emergence of mass migration, 1600-1815; Transatlantic migrations during the early modern period; The realization of mass migration, 1815-1920; Mass migration to England, Scotland, and Wales during the 19th and early 20th centuries; Political independence and persisting migration, 1920-2000; Conclusions; REFERENCES; THE NETHERLANDS
Description / Table of Contents:
Migration of labor migrants and religious refugees in the early modern periodChanging migration patterns in the 19th and early 20th centuries; Migration in the interwar period, 1918-1940; A new upsurge of immigration after the Second World War; Looking back and ahead; REFERENCES; BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG; The region and its borders; The consequences of denominational and political conflicts for migration relations in the early modern period; Industrial labor migration in Belgium and Luxembourg during the 19th century; The recruitment and establishment of an industrial workforce, 1918-1975
Description / Table of Contents:
Migration and the postindustrial Belgian-Luxembourg region after 1975
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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