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SoSe 15: A Comparative History of Transnational Migrations, 1850-1950

Michael Goebel

Kommentar

This seminar provides an overview over the major scholarly trends in the burgeoning field of migration history since the emergence of the Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s. It then proceeds to test different theoretical and methodological approaches on the basis of comparative case studies, focusing on long-distance migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly in the Atlantic world and, to a lesser, extent, in Asia. Students will thus learn about the history of some of the best-known countries of mass immigration, such as the United States and Argentina, but also familiarize themselves with examples of other types of migration in other world regions, such as indentured laborers in South(east) Asia and the Caribbean. The ultimate aim is twofold: First, debate the extent to which migration in the period that we study should be analyzed as a single phenomenon at all; second, learn about the reasons for and the long-term consequences of migration for our contemporary world. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Introductory Reading:
Adam McKeown, "Global Migration, 1846-1940," Journal of World History 15:2 (2004): 155-189.
Dirk Hoerder, "Migrations and Belongings," in Emily Rosenberg, ed., A World Connecting, 1870-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 435-589. Schließen

13 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00 13 Termine

Mo, 13.04.2015 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Goebel