„Up-to-date and intelligent, it covers an enormous span, bothchronologically and conceptually, from the ancient world to themodern; from Asia to Europe and the Americas; from historiographyto system theory and intercultural relations.“
Times Higher Education
„A very helpful tool for both learning about migration historyand migration research.“
European History Quarterly
„This book provides the reader with anupdated, and mostly complete, summary of migration history whileremaining a short read. Beyond making a great reading assignmentfor an undergraduate class, this book truly manages to challengeand engage its readership into rethinking its notions of migrationout of the classic American area.“
Canadian Journal of History
"The book's great strength is in addressing a great number ofhistorical and contemporary topics in migration as well as numerousanalytical perspectives.„
Journal of World History
“Comprehensive and lively, this volume spans the history andscholarship on migtration, telling a gendered tale that attends tostructure, agency and migration sysstems. Harzig, Hoerder andGabaccia systematize an array of concepts and insights fromscholars worldwide, then conclude with a flourish that gives due toemerging transcultural societal studies and to migrantsthemselves.„
Leslie Moch, Michigan State University
“This is an impressively wide-ranging and accessible overview ofglobal migration. It charts the long history of internationalmigration, critiques migration theory and raises importantquestions for contemporary migration scholarship and policy. Itshould become an essential text book for courses dealing withglobal migration.„
Colin Pooley, Lancaster University
“This is a short book with a long temporal span and a bigconceptual framework. It treats migration not as a chapter of U. S. history, or any other national narrative, but as a central andintrinsic element of the human condition. Its historical coveragestretches from the first homo sapiens exodus out of ourEast-African cradle to the present. The authors offer a thoughtfuldiscussion of migration and cultural-interaction theories. They notonly stress the variety of migration experiences but also detectrecurrent patterns in what at first sight may seem endlessdiversity and build explanatory typologies based on theirfindings."
Jose C. Moya, Director, Forum on Migration, Barnard College, Columbia University
Historical perspectives reveal how the scholarly field emerged and developed over time and across cultures and how historians of migration have recently begun to re-write the story of human life on earth. Throughout, the authors suggest how the movements of millions of mobile men and women persistently challenge changing scholarly paradigms for understanding their lives. Key concepts and theories, such as systems, networks, and gender, are explained and historicized to produce a complex picture of the interaction of migrants, scholars, and disciplinary cultures in a globalized world.
