The encyclopedia of European migration and minorities
Subtitle: from the seventeenth century to the present
By: edited by Klaus J. Bade ... [et al.].
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780521895866
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Economic aspects; Encyclopedias; History
Work titles: Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa. English
Description: "Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey studies of the various regions and countries in Europe covering the last centuries. The second section presents information on about 220 individual groups of migrants from the Sephardic Jews emigration from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present-day migration of old-age pensioners to the holiday villages in the sun. The first resource of its kind, The Encyclopaedia of Migration is a comprehensive and authoritative research tool"--
Notes: "All authors were given the opportunity to scrutinize the translation and to update the contents and the bibliography of their contribution"--Foreword to the English ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The encyclopaedia: idea - concept - realization Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer; 1. Terminologies and concepts of migration research Dirk Hoerder, Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen; 2. Countries; 3. Groups; Appendices.