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Migration and Multi-ethnic Communities : Mobile People from the Late Middle Ages to the Present / ed. by Maija Ojala-Fulwood.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110526417
  • 9783110526530
  • 9783110528879
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8
LOC classification:
  • HB1951 .M52 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures, Pictures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Mobility from the Long Term Perspective -- Part I. Movement of Labor -- Mobility of goldsmiths in the Baltic Sea Region 1470−1620 -- The necessary and undesirable mobility of the lower classes in seventeenth-century Swedish towns -- Assessing skillfulness: On Maghrebi women’s access to the labor market in France -- Finns as mobile maritime labor in coastal ports of the United Kingdom, 1850–1930 -- Seasonal labor migration as a fun lifestyle? -- Part II Individuals and Communities -- Urban seasonal workers and rural church constructions in eighteenth‐century Finland -- The mobile urban elite’s material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century northern Baltic cities -- Impromptu facts and moral panic: the Roma people and local communities -- In response to migration policies and to the militarization of territories: Activism in the community of Lampedusa -- Bibliography -- Subject index
Summary: This book aims to shed light on a global and complex phenomenon: migration. In order to grasp this vast and ambiguous issue, the book offers ten multi-layered case studies, each focussing on one aspect of migration. With this selection of articles, this collected volume builds a bridge between the past and the present and highlight the many sides of migration. The chapters will demonstrate how the questions of controlled migration, movement of labour, improvement of one’s life, and interaction of people of different origin have puzzled us in the course of the last five hundred years.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures, Pictures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Mobility from the Long Term Perspective -- Part I. Movement of Labor -- Mobility of goldsmiths in the Baltic Sea Region 1470−1620 -- The necessary and undesirable mobility of the lower classes in seventeenth-century Swedish towns -- Assessing skillfulness: On Maghrebi women’s access to the labor market in France -- Finns as mobile maritime labor in coastal ports of the United Kingdom, 1850–1930 -- Seasonal labor migration as a fun lifestyle? -- Part II Individuals and Communities -- Urban seasonal workers and rural church constructions in eighteenth‐century Finland -- The mobile urban elite’s material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century northern Baltic cities -- Impromptu facts and moral panic: the Roma people and local communities -- In response to migration policies and to the militarization of territories: Activism in the community of Lampedusa -- Bibliography -- Subject index

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This book aims to shed light on a global and complex phenomenon: migration. In order to grasp this vast and ambiguous issue, the book offers ten multi-layered case studies, each focussing on one aspect of migration. With this selection of articles, this collected volume builds a bridge between the past and the present and highlight the many sides of migration. The chapters will demonstrate how the questions of controlled migration, movement of labour, improvement of one’s life, and interaction of people of different origin have puzzled us in the course of the last five hundred years.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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