Title: Leaving home : migration yesterday and today /
Authors: Knauf, Diethelm.; Moreno, Barry
Publisher: Edition Temmen,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Emigration and immigration History; Europe Emigration and immigration History.; Europe Civilization.
Contents: The world we lost. European migrations 1500-1830 -- Hallelujah, we're off to America! The European cultures of origin in Western, Central and Northern Europe -- From tenant to farm owner : The life of Ernst Heinrich Kamphoefner -- One German-American story among many -- The Mellon family of Castletown, Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland -- Do Ameryki za chlebem : Central-Eastern Europeans cross the Atlantic -- Emigration from southern Europe to the United States (1830-1914) -- "The time has come, we are going to America." The main travel routes and emigrant ports -- Sidebar -- Re-envisioning the United States in migration history -- "In search of fame, fortune and sweet liberty" -- European emigration to Canada, 1830 to the present -- To govern is to populate! Migration to Latin America -- The legendary southern continent : Australia -- New Zealand -- "The land of the long white cloud" -- Tonga -- The friendly isles -- ... and divided up the loot : Africa -- Crossing the Atlantic rim : European immigration to the United States after World War One -- Nothing saved but his own life -- The banishment and flight of the jewish lawyer Karl Rosenthal from Nazi Germany -- Between nowhere and somewhere : One displaced person's odyssey to freedom -- The swinging door -- changing patterns in contemporary American immigration -- Germany as an immigrant country -- Migration to, within and from Africa : That's where we belong -- Global migration -- The past, the present and the future.