Migration and World History
Reaching a New Frontier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9322656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Lucassen (0000-0003-2334-4810, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-96 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859006002793 |
| OpenAlex | W2149047634 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 8 |
Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving Europeans , published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in migration history into the general social and economic history of western Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new studies have proved her point and refined her model
Archaeology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Industrialisation · Modernization theory · Phenomenon · Political science · Proletarianization · Social history (medicine · Sociology · Urbanization · Australian History and Society · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |