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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830907903321

Autore

Bade Klaus J.

Titolo

Migration in European history / / Klaus J. Bade ; translated by Allison Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

1-281-32297-0

9786611322977

0-470-70025-4

0-470-75465-6

0-470-75457-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Collana

The making of Europe

Disciplina

304.84

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - Europe - History

Immigrants - Europe - History

Europeans - Foreign countries - History

Europe Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Migration during the shift from agrarian to industrial societies. -- Migration in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. -- The period of the world wars: escape, expulsion, forced labour. -- Migration and migratory policies in the Cold War. -- Europe : a continent of immigration at the end of the twentieth century.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries, but migrations to, from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus Bade reminds us in this timely history. A history of migration to, from and within Europe over a range of eras, countries and migration types. Examines the driving forces and currents of migration, their effects on the cultures of both migrants and host populations, including migration policies. Focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the period from the Second W