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Migrations in History

Herausgegeben von: Catherine Brice, Maddalena Marinari, Anna Mazurkiewicz und Machteld Venken

ISSN: 2701-1437

e-ISSN 2701-1445

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The series focuses on migration in historical context. We welcome proposals for monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, and work in translation that investigate any aspect of migration on any time period and from any region of the world. We are particularly interested in submissions that explore migration in comparative perspective, investigate the memory of migration, and study migration as a process that unfolds across countries of departure, arrival, and transit. While we welcome submissions from non-historians, we prioritize scholars who frame their work historically. The purpose of this series is to draw attention to the historical roots of current global patterns of migration and debates over its broader ramifications.

Advisory Board:

Sylvie Aprile, L’Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP)/Université Paris Nanterre-France

Ulf Brunnbauer, IOS Regensburg

Sonia Cancian, McGill University

Stacy Fahrenthold, University of California, Davis

Michał Frankl, Masaryk Institute, Prague

Irial Glynn, University College Dublin

Idesbald Goddeeris, KU Leuven

Violet Showers Johnson, Texas A&M University

Anna Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State Univesrity

Claudia Moatti, University of Southern California

Leslie Moch, Michigan State University

Matteo Pretelli, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Christiane Reinecke, University of Osnabruck

Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Science

Barış Ülker, Technical University Berlin

Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University of Krakow

Miha Zobec, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Fachgebiete

Buch 2024

Migratory Careers

A Historical Overview of Highly Educated Women, 1960–2021

Maria Luisa Di Martino

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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The mobility regimes in which migratory careers of highly educated women are embedded have a high impact on the invisible sway between privileges and vulnerabilities in situated socio-political contexts. Between 1960s and 1990s, highly educated women began moving on their own, but, despite their qualifications, they nonetheless faced big challenges, some of which have not completely disappeared.
Are highly educated migrant women really privileged? This book explores the empirical dilemma between privileges and vulnerability in the framework of conceptual transformations of the highly skilled migration and human mobility in history from the post-industrial era to the present.
The book’s subject matter shows an existing sway between privileges and vulnerability in the construction process of the “migratory careers” of highly educated women, which depends on the articulation of macro, meso and micro factors and driving women historically to shape heterogeneous readaptation responses in different geo-political contexts. The case study of the Basque Country in Spain is presented as emblematic reflection of the global economy conformation.
The history explored from a gender perspective shows that a critical understanding of the structures of opportunities and constraints influencing women’s mobility is relevant to overcome stereotypes and generate gender-sensitive policies for the socio-economic inclusion of more vulnerable groups.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776911
ISBN:: 9783110776911
ISBN:: 9783110776973
ISBN:: 9783110776447
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte ab 1945
Fachgebiet:: Andere Themen
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Geschlechtergeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Labour History
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2024

Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History

Eva Pfanzelter, Sarah Oberbichler, Valerio Larcher

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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Migration is often viewed as a one-way process, from the country of origin to the place of arrival, but recent academic research shows that this presumption is fundamentally flawed. Migration has always been characterized by return movements, as a glance into history reveals – from transatlantic returns in the 19th century to the back-and-forth of migrant workers and refugees in the 20th century, and numerous other forced and voluntary migrations. This volume invites to reconceptualize studies in migration history by shifting away from the focus on “going away” to a more complex one revolving around a plurality of issues of leaving, returning, moving on and traveling again, belonging and fluid identities in “third spaces”.
Structured in three parts, the contributions in this volume shed light on the close connection between power dynamics and return migration as well as how migration processes shape individual planning abilities, social relationships, and complex spatial dynamics.The methodological part of the volume further encourages readers to reflect on growing data collections and possibilities for digital research on return migration.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111186016
ISBN:: 9783111186016
ISBN:: 9783111186085
ISBN:: 9783111185934
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Sozialgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2024

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

Maria Adamopoulou

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter’s welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience.　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111202303
ISBN:: 9783111202303
ISBN:: 9783111203065
ISBN:: 9783111201320
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte ab 1945
Fachgebiet:: Kalter Krieg
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Labour History
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2024

Managing Migration in Italy and the United States

Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Maddalena Marinari, Daniele Fiorentino

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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Managing Migration in Italy and the United States shows how the development of gatekeeping in the United States and Italy laid the groundwork for immigration restriction worldwide at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume brings together European and American scholars, many for the first time, effectively crossing national and disciplinary boundaries. Using archives on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors explore the rise of immigration restriction and the attendant growth of the bureaucracy to regulate migration through the lens of migration studies, transnational history, and diplomatic and international history. The essays contribute to recent scholarship on the global repercussions of immigration restriction and the complex web of interactions created by limits on mobility. Managing Migration brings to light Italy’s important role in the establishment of international border controls promoted by the United States and expands the chronology of restriction from its origins to the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110982497
ISBN:: 9783110982497
ISBN:: 9783110996289
ISBN:: 9783110983074
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Nordamerika
Fachgebiet:: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Exilgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2023

Migration and the Construction of German Identities, 1949–2004

Bethany Erin Hicks

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conceptions of what it means to be "German" at any given place and time. The attempt at constructing an ethnically homogeneous Third Reich was shattered by the movement of refugees, expellees, and soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the contracting of foreign nationals as　Gastarbeiter　in the Federal Republic and　Vertragsarbeiter　in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s and 70s diversified the ethnic landscape of both Cold War German states during the latter half of the Cold War. Bethany Hicks shows how the regional migration of East Germans into the western federal states both during and after German unification challenged essential Cold War assumptions concerning the ability to integrate two very different German populations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716221
ISBN:: 9783110716221
ISBN:: 9783110716269
ISBN:: 9783110716122
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte ab 1945
Fachgebiet:: Kalter Krieg
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Deutschland
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine deutsche Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

Banished

Traveling the Roads of Exile in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Delphine Diaz, Sylvie Aprile

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Through eight chapters, it draws on a transnational approach to analyze migratory movements across European borders. The book reviews the chronology of exile and shows how European states welcomed, selected, and expelled refugees. In addition to presenting the point of view of nation-states, it reflects the experience of those migrating. The book addresses departure into exile, captured through the material circumstances of crossing borders in the 19th century, and examines the emergence of new ways to pursue political commitments from abroad. The outcasts are considered in all their diversity, with a prominent place accorded to women and children, many of whom also moved under duress. The book aims to shed light on the forced migrations of Europeans across Europe, while also considering the global dimension, looking at exile to the Americas or the French colonies. A final chapter examines the impossibility or difficulty of returning from exile to one’s country of origin, as well as the a posteriori memorial constructs around that crucial experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732276
ISBN:: 9783110732276
ISBN:: 9783111356853
ISBN:: 9783110737318
ISBN:: 9783110732344
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Exilgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Geschlechtergeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Unity is Strength

German Immigrant Associations in New York, 1890s–1930s

Markus Bierkoch

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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Migration has been one of the most pressing societal issues throughout history. Immigrant associations play a crucial role in understanding this phenomenon. They channel migration streams, influence the assimilation of their members, and serve as representatives of the entire immigrant group in society. However, they remain an understudied subject, particularly in historical research.

To address this gap, this study examines German immigrant associations in New York from the 1890s to the 1930s. Through an innovative combination of statistical and textual analyses, it explores the class composition of these associations, their intricate system of mutual aid, and their political activities. This study offers insights into how specific socio-economic motivations influenced immigrant organization and collective action, including aspects such as long-distance nationalism and cross-border ethnic identity.

Ultimately, based on these findings, this study demonstrates that immigrant associations played a crucial role in helping their members adapt to a new social and economic environment. Additionally, it shows why and how immigrant associations significantly shaped the image of German immigrants in American social and political life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111423180
ISBN:: 9783111423180
ISBN:: 9783111422831
ISBN:: 9783111423814
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Nordamerika
Fachgebiet:: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg