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Author Lucassen, Jan.

Title Globalising Migration History : the Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries)
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (520 pages)
Series Studies in Global Migration History
Studies in global migration history.
Contents Acknowledgements; About the Authors; List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Section One Europe and Siberia; Measuring and Quantifying Cross-Cultural Migrations: An Introduction; Catherine's Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Russia, 1500s-1914; Measuring Migration in Russia: A Perspective of Empire, 1500-1900; Section Two South Asia; Mapping Migrations of South Indian Weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar Period: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries; South Indian Migration, c. 1800-1950; Section Three South East Asia
Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century JavaToward Cities, Seas, and Jungles: Migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750-1850; The Art of (not) Looking Back: Reconsidering Lisu Migrations and "Zomia"; Migration in an Age of Change: The Migration Effect of Decolonization and Industrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900-2000; Section Four East Asia; A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600-1900; Han Chinese Immigrants in Manchuria, 1850-1931; From Mao to the Present: Migration in China since the Second World War
Cross-Cultural Migrations in Japan in a Comparative Perspective, 1600-2000Section Five Conclusion; Summary and Concluding Remarks; References; Name Index; Geographical Index; Subject Index
Summary Globalizing Migration History presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Eurasians -- Migrations -- History
Immigrants -- Eurasia -- History
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Eurasia -- History
Social change -- Eurasia -- History
Acculturation -- Eurasia -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Acculturation
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Globalization -- Social aspects
Immigrants
Social change
SUBJECT Eurasia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Russia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Eurasia -- Ethnic relations
Subject Asia
Eurasia
Russia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lucassen, Leo, 1959-
ISBN 9789004271364
9004271368