Migration in European History

Since the opening of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries. However, migrations to, from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus J. Bade reminds us in this timely book.

Bade presents a history of European migration over a range of eras, countries and migration types, examining the driving forces and currents of migration as well as their effects on the cultures of both migrants and host countries. He focuses mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, paying particular attention to the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and includes public perceptions of migration as well as migration policies. This emphasis on recent history enables the author to illuminate the problems that Europe is presently experiencing.

The book touches on one of the most controversial areas of current European politics, demonstrating that the reactions of today s host populations are often alarmist, and reminding us that many Europeans are themselves descendants of earlier migrants.

Series Editor′s Preface.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

1. Migration during the Shift from Agrarian to Industrial Societies.

2. Migration in Nineteenth– and Early Twentieth–Century Europe.

3. The Period of the World Wars: Escape, Expulsion, Forced Labour.

4. Migration and Migratory Policies in the Cold War.

5. Europe: A Continent of Immigration at the End of the Twentieth Century.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Klaus J. Bade was born in 1944 in Sierentz, Alsace–Lorraine. He is chair of modern history and director of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard and Oxford and fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He won the Philip Morris Research Award in 2001 and is a member of numerous scientific organizations, commissions and advisory boards as well as head of German and international research projects. He is co–editor of several book series and journals and author and editor of more than 30 books on German and European history, including colonial history and population and migration past and present.

Allison Brown has been a freelance translator of scholarly books and essays, largely in the fields of history and the social and political sciences, especially cultural studies, since 1988. She has studied linguistics and German studies, and has an MA in translation science. She lives in Berlin.