A01=Christiane Harzig
A01=Dirk Hoerder
A02=Donna R. Gabaccia
acute
analysis
Author_Christiane Harzig
Author_Dirk Hoerder
Author_Donna R. Gabaccia
Category=NHK
classic
disciplines
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field
historians
history
interdisciplinary
interpreted
introduction
issues across
key
leading
migration
migrations
overview
readers
scope
several
short
student
study
topics
Product details
- ISBN 9780745643366
- Weight: 263g
- Dimensions: 137 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2009
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues across several disciplines. It takes in its scope an overview of migrations through history, how classic theories have interpreted such movements, and contemporary topics and debates including transnational and transcultural lives, access to citizenship, and migrant entrepreneurship.
Historical perspectives reveal how the scholarly field emerged and developed over time and across cultures and how historians of migration have recently begun to re-write the story of human life on earth. Throughout, the authors suggest how the movements of millions of mobile men and women persistently challenge changing scholarly paradigms for understanding their lives. Key concepts and theories, such as systems, networks, and gender, are explained and historicized to produce a complex picture of the interaction of migrants, scholars, and disciplinary cultures in a globalized world.
Christiane Harzig is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
Dirk Hoerder is a Professor at Arizona State University.
