Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004)

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Leo Lucassen, David Feldman, Jochen Oltmer
Amsterdam University Press, 2006 - History - 343 pages
In the 1990s, as concern grew in the United States about the integration of large numbers of immigrants, scholars searching for historical parallels looked to the last great period of immigration, ffrom 1880 to 1914. That example, however, is generally viewed as inapplicable to the current immigration debates in Europe.

Paths of Integration turns this conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the history of European migration more closely parallels the U.S. experience than most realize, due to the largely ignored, but extensive, intra-European migration of the same period. By placing the European and U.S. examples side by side, the contributors to this volume offer long-term insights on a question that will be of great importance in the coming decades.

 

Contents

Immigrant Integration in Western Europe Then and Now
7
PART I THEN AND NOW CONVERGENT COMPARISONS
25
PART II HERE AND THERE DIVERGENT COMPARISONS
137
PART III INSTITUTIONS AND INTEGRATION
199
PART IV CONCLUSION
281
About the Authors
297
References
301
Index
333
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Leo Lucassen is professor of social history at the University of Leiden and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. David Feldman is senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. Jochen Oltmer is affiliated with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück.

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