Berliner Luftmenschen

Migration history has come a long way in the past decades. Long gone are the days when population movements, particularly those across national boundaries, were regarded as exceptional phenomena, precipitated by particular crises, and analysed overwhelmingly on the macro level through such processes as assimilation and integration into the receiving societies. Instead, drawing on insights offered by Eugene M. Kulischer and others as early as the 1940s, scholars have increasingly come to regard large-scale migrations as permanent features of the international system and to explore them with increasing sophistication, as highly complex, multi-faceted, transnational events that need to be examined from multiple perspectives. At the same time, the interconnections between wars and other crises and particular waves of migrations, especially different types of forced migrations, have come under close and imaginative scrutiny as well. The result has been a rapidly growing and intellectually stimulating scholarly literature. The books under review here are two successful and noteworthy additions to this body of historiography

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