Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective

This volume is a collection of new writings on world migration drawn from seminars of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. Bringing together the work of established and junior scholars this volume seeks to provide a comparative framework for understanding the process and history of migration as a global phenomenon. The articles examine population movements and their demographic, social, political, and cultural causes and consequences. Topics addressed include: voluntary and forced movements of people within and between regions and nations; movement towards urban centers or dispersal into surrounding countrysides; transfers of cultural objects, practices, and technologies; experiences of resocialization and the transfer, reconstruction, and creation of memories, myths, values and symbols; the role of local, national, and transnational institutions; the relationship between immigration, assimilation, and acculturation; movement in the interest of ethnic autonomy or secession, and as a response to such dangers as deprivation, religious persecution, warfare, and mass violence; and the development of large-scale and long-lasting border zones within which populations move and interact. Editors: Anthony T. Grafton and Marc S. Rodriguez Anthony Grafton teaches European history at Princeton University; Marc S. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.