People on the Move - Attitudes toward and Perceptions of Migration in Medieval and Modern Europe

While most people in the world are descendants of migrants, not everyone is conscious of the migration patterns of their ancestors. The goals and motives for moving or staying are changing, diverse, and often difficult to specify. As a result of 19th-century residentialist social and political theories, many scholars generally assume that migration is a pattern of behavior that deviates from the norm and requires a specific motive or reason. This study details the variety of changing historical patterns of migrant behavior by examining migration patterns over 1500 years in Europe and Southeast Asia.

Kleinschmidt researches migrants and describes how they viewed themselves. He also includes a look at lawmakers, political decision-makers, and administrators to analyze the changes of their attitudes towards and perceptions of migration. The study places migration within and out of the two regions into a long timeframe to demonstrate the ubiquitous and transience of patterns of migrant behavior. It considers external attitudes and perceptions of migration within the context of the social and political theories of their own time. The two distinct geographic foci of the study allow for discussion of the characteristic features of each region.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Introduction
Migration and Politics: An Overview
Dealing with Migrants, Looking at Migration, and Reflecting on Populations.
What Is Migration?
Aspects of Empirical Migration Research
Migration as an Element of Historical Explanations
Three Examples of Theories Based on Migration
Migration and Travel in Medieval Europe
Introduction
Migration in Medieval Europe
Travel in the Middle Ages
Migrationism in the Middle Ages
Summary
Migration and Travel in the Early Modern Period
Introduction
Migration in the Early Modern Period
Travel in the Early Modern Period
Migrationism in the 18th Century
Conclusion
Migrationism and Migration in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Introduction
Overview of Migration in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Migrationism in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Migration and Collective Identity: Germany in the Late 19th and First Half of the 20th Centuries
Conclusion
Migration and National Identification in Southeast Asia: The Case of Singapore and Malaysia
Introduction
Singapore
Malaysia
Conclusion
Epilogue

Über den Autor / die Autorin

HARALD KLEINSCHMIDT is Professor of History at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Born at Gottingen, West Germany, he graduated from the University of Gottingen. After teaching at the University of Stuttgart, he transferred to Tsukuba in 1989. He became Extraordinary Professor of European Studies at the University of Tokyo in 2000. He has many publications in both English and German.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Harald Kleinschmidt, Kleinschmidt Harald
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.12.2003
• EAN: 9780275974176
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97417-6
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Human Geography, World History: Culture