Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 05:06:50 -0600

[Edwin Rocabado <rocabado@sfsu.edu> writes:]

I strongly suggest the growing literature on transnational migration, here are a few references by authors who i feel are being very productive. Some have excellent bibliographies. It is really great literature.

Basch, Linda, Schiller Nina G., and Blanc, Cristina Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States.

Gordon and Breach U.S. 1994

Kearney, Micheal

"Borders and Boundries of State and Self at the End of Empire"

JOURNAL of HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY V 4 1(1991):52-74

Rouse, Roger

"Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Post-Modernism"

DIASPORA I (1991):8-23

Schiller, Nina G., Basch, Linda, and Blanc,Christina Towards a

Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race Class, Ethnicity,

and Nationalism Reconsidered

New York Academy of Sciences 1992





Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 05:25:02 -0600

[John Radzilowski <JRadzilow@AOL.COM> writes:]

Some of the most sophisticated work on migration comes from European or European-trained scholars:

In particular, the work of Ewa Morawska:

1. FOR BREAD WITH BUTTER: THE LIFE WORLDS OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPEANS IN JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 1880-1940 (Cambridge, 1985), esp. Ch. 1.

2. "The Labor Migrations of Poles in the Atlantic World Economy, 1880-1914," Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 2 (April 1989): 237-272.

3. "The Historiography and Sociology of Immigration," in Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, Politics (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1990)

4. I have no hesitation also recommending her newest book-sight unseen-on the Jews of Johnstown, Pa.

For collected works that illustrate the breadth of work on migration, see:

Dirk Hoerder, ed. Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies: The European and North American Working Classes during the Period of Industrialization, (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985). (There are a couple other works in a similar vein edited by Hoerder.)

Julianna Puskas, ed. Overseas Migration from East-Central and Southeastern Europe, 1880-1940 (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1990), 21-42.

(For those who read Polish, a helpful critique of this work is:

Adam Walaszek, "Migracje ze Srodkowo-Wschodniej Europy, 1880-1940," Kwartalnik Historyczny 4 (1991).)

More generally, there is:

Frank Thistlethwaite, "Migration from Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in XIe Congres International des Sciences Historiques, Stockholm 1960, Rapports V: Historie Contemporaine (Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell, 1960).

J. D. Gould, "European Inter-Continental Emigration, 1815-1914:

Patterns and Causes," Journal of European Economic History 8, no.

3 (Winter 1979): 593-679.

Idem, "Emigration, The Road Home: Return Migration from the U.S.A.," Journal of European Economic History 9, no. 1 (Spring 1980)

Leslie Page Moch, Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

* John Radzilowski





Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:14:49 -0600

[Charles Katz <ckatz@UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU> writes:]

This is just an addendum to John Radzilowski's helpful list -

Frank Thistlethwaite's seminal "Migration from Europe Overseas" may be more readily available in either of these two collections:

_Emigration and Immigration: The Old World Confronts the New_,

ed. G.E. Pozzetta (NY: Garland) 1991.

_A Century of European Migrations: 1830-1930_,

eds. R.J. Vecoli and S.M. Sinke (Urbana: U. of Illinois) 1991.

The latter includes a "Postscript" by Thistletwaite.

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Charles Raymond Katz

c/o History Dept.

UC Berkeley, 94720

ckatz@uclink.berkeley.edu