The mobility transition revisited, 1500–1900
What the case of Europe can offer to global history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Lucassen (0009-0009-6065-3947, International Institute of Social History, corresponding author), L Lucassen (0000-0003-2334-4810, Leiden University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-377 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s174002280999012x |
| OpenAlex | W2120038758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 41 |
Historians of migration have increasingly criticized the idea of a ‘mobility transition’, which assumed that pre-modern societies in Europe were geographically fairly immobile, and that people only started to move in unprecedented ways with the onset of modernization in the nineteenth century. In line with this critique, this article attempts to apply thorough quantitative tests to the available data. The focus is on ‘cross-community migration’, following Patrick Manning's argument that migrants moving over a cultural border are most likely to accelerate the rate of innovation. Six forms of migration are considered: emigration out of Europe, immigration from other continents, rural colonization of ‘empty spaces’, movements to large cities, seasonal migration, and the movement of sailors and soldiers. To illustrate regional variations, the examples of the Netherlands and Russia are contrasted. The reconstruction presented here is partial and preliminary, but it unequivocally shows that early modern Europe was much more mobile than modernization scholars allowed for. There was indeed a sharp increase in the level of migration after 1850, but it was due to improvements in transport rather than to modernization in a more general sense. This model has been elaborated for Europe but it can also be applied to other parts of the world and can hopefully contribute to the debate on the ‘Great Divergence’ between Europe and Asia
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General Introduction
The Great and Miserable Flight’
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Stakeholder Roles in the Participatory Management of Diasporic Built Heritage
Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part II)
Histories of Modern Migration in East Asia
Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part I)
Migration Histories
The Wrong Side of the River
Mujeres Francesas Y Matrimonio en La Cataluña Moderna (Siglos Xvi-Xvii)
Labour migration and economic performance
Women Building the Colonial Archive. Legal Authority, Female Knowledge and Affective Mobility in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic World
More Power, Less Sympathy The Response of IGOs in Western Europe to Unwanted Migration during Economic Crises Compared
Beyond Methodological Nationalism and Epistemological Behaviouralism
Escalas migratorias en la configuración imperial ibérica
Where and when was Europe? Europeanness and its relationship to migration
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Access to marriage and reproduction among migrants in Antwerp and Stockholm. A longitudinal approach to processes of social inclusion and exclusion, 1846–1926
Rural migration in Korea
Household and family during urbanization and industrialization
Using collaborative genealogy data to study migration
Migration
Mobility, cohabitation and cultural exchange in the lodging houses of early modern Venice
Smugglers and innkeepers
Cards and carriers
Papal Rome in Lockdown
Clubs as vehicles for inclusion in the urban fabric? Immigrants and elitist associational practices in Antwerp, 1795–1830
Spatializing gender and migration
Introduction
Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis
Writing a Global History of Convict Labour
The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation
The Beginnings of a World History of Modern Migration
Attitudes to Work, Class Structures, and Social Change
The simultaneity of feeling German and being American
The police in every hotel’? Hospitality governance in Antwerp during the long nineteenth century
Manoeuvring urban spaces in-between public and private
Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration
Introduction – Controlling mobile guests where they rest. Comparative perspectives on hotel registration in Europe, 1840s–1930s
Chronicle of an early demise, surname extinction in the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries
Demography and Demographers in Modern Germany
The Determinants of International Migration in Early Modern Europe
Host-Country Identification Among Early Modern Immigrants
Theorizing Cross-Cultural Migrations
The Democratization of Long-Distance Migration
Rural crisis and rural exodus? Local migration dynamics during the crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium)
Africa's Migration Transition
Historical Immigration Policies
Cultural majority rights
Policing The Lost
What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement
Which transition comes first? Urban and demographic transitions in Belgium and Sweden
Prohibited journeys
Currents of Global Migration
A quiet claim to citizenship
Internal Migration Over the Course of Urbanization in Developing Countries
Mobilities and Ruralities
Two centuries of flows between 'here' and 'there
Weaving Solidarity
Testing the Limits of Climate History
Real inequality in the early modern Low Countries
Dutch assimilation versus migrants' hybridism
Genre et migrations dans les études atlantiques de 1500 à nos jours
Les migrations internationales à l'ère de la mondialisation industrielle, 1840-1940
The military revolution
The Military Organization of a Renaissance State
Making Ireland British, 1580-1650
The Industrious Revolution
Round-Trip to America
Cultures in Contact
Death and the Metropolis
Death by Migration
The Great Divergence
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992
European Urbanization, 1500-1800
The Great Divergence
The German Military Enterpriser and His Work Force
Armies and Warfare in Europe, 1648-1789
Armies and Warfare in Europe, 1648-1789
Europa in Bewegung
The German Military Enterpriser and His Work Force
Great Siberian Migration
The Sinews of Power
Bayonets Before Bullets
China Transformed
European urbanization 1500–1800
Moving Europeans
Migration in World History
The Balkan City, 1400-1900
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659. The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars
Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century
The Great Siberian Migration
Peasants into Frenchmen
| Unique citing works | 67 |
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| Citations per year | 4,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |