European Migrants: Global And Local Perspectives

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Nine essays on migration between 1840 and 1914 that place migrants in local and global contexts. Migrants Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Essays Perspectives Distinctions Notes Migration in the Atlantic Economies: Regional European Origins and Worldwide Expansion The Background: Europe from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries Rural and Protoindustrial Migrations in Europe, 1650-1800 Expansion I: The Seaborne Empires and Colonial Migrations Overseas, 1400-1800 The Development of the Atlantic Core and Its Migration System, 1815-1914 Expansion II: The Imperialist World System Migration Flows in the Northern Hemisphere: The 1920s to the 1940s and since the 1950s Notes Migration and the Social History of Modem Europe An Emerging Consensus Problems and Unsolved Puzzles A Systems Approach Conclusion Notes Demographic Aspects of European Migration Worldwide Introduction: European Migration in World Context Migration and Age-Sex Structures of Populations Family and Individual Migration, Land-seeking, and Labor-seeking Sex Ratios among Migrants: Women as Migrants Source Problems in Establishing Numbers of Migrants Destinations of European Migrants Demographic and Mobility Transitions: A Critique Demography, Empires, and Settlement Frontiers Notes Women of the Mass Migrations: From Minority to Majority, 1820-1930 Men and Women in U.S. Immigration Data Women and Their Homelands The Pull of the United States The Influence of Law Conclusion Notes The European Perspective: Changing Conditions and Multiple Migrations, 1750-1914 Population, Family, and Migration in tire Eighteenth Century Migration and Early Industry Changing Conditions in the Nineteenth Century Transoceanic Migrations in the Nineteenth Century Migration among European Nations Internal Migration Temporary Movement Links among Migration Systems Conclusion Notes The Socioeconomic Determinants of Increasing Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Germany Population Growth and Social Structure before 1800 Population Growth and the Transformation of Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century Rural Deindustrialization Industrialization and Temporary Labor Conclusion Notes Labor Migrations of Poles in the Atlantic World Economy, 1880-1914 Incorporation of Eastern European Periphery into the Atlantic World Economy Double-Dependency of Poland's Economic Development Polish Labor Migrations: Mechanisms, Directions, and Volume Village Communities as Senders and Receivers in the Labor Migration Process Conclusion Notes References From Migrants to Ethnics: Acculturation in a Societal Framework 1. A Model of Migration and Acculturation 2. Premigration Mentalities: Push, Self-Selection, and Expectations 3. Transition 4. The Framework of the Receiving Society: The Economic Sphere 5. The Social Sphere 6. The Political System 7. Ethnic Communities, Family Economy, and Private Lives Notes The Modern Jewish Diaspora: Eastern European Jews in New York, London, and Paris The Comparative Method The Linear Paradigm The Divergent Challenge Images of Emigration The Impact of Numbers Uptown-Downtown, West End and East End, Juifs et Israélites Politics and Timing The Economics of Divergence Conclusion Notes The Adjustment of Italian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and New York, 1870-1914 Notes Bibliographical Addendum Select Bibliography Contributors Index