Published by De Gruyter

Migrations in History

Edited by: Catherine Brice, Maddalena Marinari, Anna Mazurkiewicz and Machteld Venken

ISSN: 2701-1437

e-ISSN 2701-1445

Overview
Volumes

The series focuses on migration in historical context. We welcome proposals for monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, and work in translation that investigate any aspect of migration on any time period and from any region of the world. We are particularly interested in submissions that explore migration in comparative perspective, investigate the memory of migration, and study migration as a process that unfolds across countries of departure, arrival, and transit. While we welcome submissions from non-historians, we prioritize scholars who frame their work historically. The purpose of this series is to draw attention to the historical roots of current global patterns of migration and debates over its broader ramifications.

Advisory Board:

Sylvie Aprile, L’Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP)/Université Paris Nanterre-France

Ulf Brunnbauer, IOS Regensburg

Sonia Cancian, McGill University

Stacy Fahrenthold, University of California, Davis

Michał Frankl, Masaryk Institute, Prague

Irial Glynn, University College Dublin

Idesbald Goddeeris, KU Leuven

Violet Showers Johnson, Texas A&M University

Anna Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State Univesrity

Claudia Moatti, University of Southern California

Leslie Moch, Michigan State University

Matteo Pretelli, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Christiane Reinecke, University of Osnabruck

Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Science

Barış Ülker, Technical University Berlin

Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University of Krakow

Miha Zobec, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Topics

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

Maria Adamopoulou

Volume 4 in this series

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Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter’s welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience.　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111202303
ISBN:: 9783111202303
ISBN:: 9783111203065
ISBN:: 9783111201320
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Cold War
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Labour History
Subject:: Migration History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Managing Migration in Italy and the United States

Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Maddalena Marinari, Daniele Fiorentino

Volume 3 in this series

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Managing Migration in Italy and the United States shows how the development of gatekeeping in the United States and Italy laid the groundwork for immigration restriction worldwide at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume brings together European and American scholars, many for the first time, effectively crossing national and disciplinary boundaries. Using archives on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors explore the rise of immigration restriction and the attendant growth of the bureaucracy to regulate migration through the lens of migration studies, transnational history, and diplomatic and international history. The essays contribute to recent scholarship on the global repercussions of immigration restriction and the complex web of interactions created by limits on mobility. Managing Migration brings to light Italy’s important role in the establishment of international border controls promoted by the United States and expands the chronology of restriction from its origins to the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110982497
ISBN:: 9783110982497
ISBN:: 9783110996289
ISBN:: 9783110983074
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: North America
Subject:: United States of America
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Subject:: Migration History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2023

Migration and the Construction of German Identities, 1949–2004

Bethany Erin Hicks

Volume 2 in this series

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Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conceptions of what it means to be "German" at any given place and time. The attempt at constructing an ethnically homogeneous Third Reich was shattered by the movement of refugees, expellees, and soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the contracting of foreign nationals as　Gastarbeiter　in the Federal Republic and　Vertragsarbeiter　in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s and 70s diversified the ethnic landscape of both Cold War German states during the latter half of the Cold War. Bethany Hicks shows how the regional migration of East Germans into the western federal states both during and after German unification challenged essential Cold War assumptions concerning the ability to integrate two very different German populations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716221
ISBN:: 9783110716221
ISBN:: 9783110716269
ISBN:: 9783110716122
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Cold War
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Germany
Subject:: General German History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Migration History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2021

Banished

Traveling the Roads of Exile in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Delphine Diaz, Sylvie Aprile

Volume 1 in this series

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This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Through eight chapters, it draws on a transnational approach to analyze migratory movements across European borders. The book reviews the chronology of exile and shows how European states welcomed, selected, and expelled refugees. In addition to presenting the point of view of nation-states, it reflects the experience of those migrating. The book addresses departure into exile, captured through the material circumstances of crossing borders in the 19th century, and examines the emergence of new ways to pursue political commitments from abroad. The outcasts are considered in all their diversity, with a prominent place accorded to women and children, many of whom also moved under duress. The book aims to shed light on the forced migrations of Europeans across Europe, while also considering the global dimension, looking at exile to the Americas or the French colonies. A final chapter examines the impossibility or difficulty of returning from exile to one’s country of origin, as well as the a posteriori memorial constructs around that crucial experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732276
ISBN:: 9783110732276
ISBN:: 9783111356853
ISBN:: 9783110737318
ISBN:: 9783110732344
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Subject:: Gender History
Subject:: Migration History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg