The history of human migration

In "The History of Human Migration", an international team of historians tells the story of our migrations across the globe from prehistory of today's global population shifts. Using annotated maps, informative timelines and hundreds of photographs, paintings and artefacts, they bring our epic story to vivid life and show how migration is a major factor in the history of civilization. "The History of Human Migration" covers: the causes and effects of human migrations; prehistoric migrations; traditional migration routes; conquests and expansions of the Roman, Barbarian, Viking, Mongol and Arab populations; colonisation, convicts and slaves; industrialisation, famine, war, persecution and economic collapse; migration around the world, including Africa, Israel, the Eastern Bloc, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and North America; and future mass-movements of humans

Special Issue: New perspectives on Albanian migration and development

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Migration into Southern Europe: new trends and new patterns

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‘Journal of Island Studies’: preliminary ideas from 1991 and comments from 2015

Some preliminary thoughts were penned in 1991, on the founding of an academic journal devoted to the study of the world’s islands. This collated contribution is an opportunity to look back critically at what was advised then, and what has actually come to pass through Island Studies Journal. Russell King’s prescient report from 1991 is followed by a series of candid reflections by members of ISJ’s International Editorial Board

Introduction

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Migration

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The Mediterranean passage: migration and new cultural encounters in Southern Europe

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, southern Europe became a key destination for global migration. Countries which had been important source countries for emigration, mainly to northern Europe, quickly became targets for international migrants coming from an extraordinary range of source countries. Today, the management of immigration is complex with countries torn between the need to satisfy the rules of Schengen and ‘fortress Europe’ on the one hand, and the economic benefits of cheap and flexible labour supplies on the other. This book brings together a variety of detailed studies recording the ‘cultural encounters’ of these migrants. Most of the chapters are based on detailed research in locations such as Lisbon, the Algarve, Barcelona, Turin, Bologna, Sicily and Athens, as well as in source countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Albania and the Philippines. What emerges is a scenario diverse and rapidly evolving, with cultural encounters which are both enriching and depressing, yet always fascinating

New perspectives on Albanian migration and development

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Southern Europe and irregular migration

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Love, sexuality and migration

In our globalised age of accelerating travel and communication, many migrations and other forms of mobility are informed by a variety of emotional, affective and sexual liaisons, attachments and expectations, which can be powerful and necessary motivations for mobility and for the risks taken in crossing boundaries. In some cases, the emotional and sexual motivations involve economic sacrifices; in others, especially for migrants from poor countries, they can also be a means to economic betterment. In yet others the economic imperative of acquiring work and income through migration implies a loss of emotional expressiveness and sexual identity. In this introductory paper to the special issue, we argue for both a ‘sexual turn’ and an ‘emotional turn’ in mobility studies, stressing also the intersectionality of these two dimensions. Some of the most productive research on sexuality in relation to mobility comes from ‘queer theory’, an intrinsically post-structuralist heuristic paradigm which challenges established heteronormative and homonormative categories in favour of an emphasis on the polymorphous and performative dimensions of sexuality. The final part of the article provides an overview of the papers that follow and the themes they explore. Taken together, the papers investigate different globalised intersections of love, sexuality and migration, and the way they inform, and are informed by, existing narratives and practices of migration and settlement