Global Migration, 1846–1940

McKeown, Adam

doi:10.1353/jwh.2004.0026

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“…On the question whether labour migration in South-East Asia during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth was free or unfree migration, McKeown (2004) and Mohapatra (2007) disagree. According to McKeown, most migrants were free and moved through personal networks of family and friends.…”

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“…In Asia there were similar developments, with large numbers of migrants flocking to centres of capital in Northern and South-East Asia (McKeown 2004;Manning 2005;Lucassen 2007). At the same time, however, Asian migrants were excluded as much as possible from the Atlantic world and white settler colonies, creating a global, racially motivated migration regime which aimed at keeping Asians in Asia, except for relatively small numbers of indentured migrant workers, mostly in the Caribbean.…”

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Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

Quispel¹,

Lucassen²,

Schrover³

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Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

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Lucassen²,

Schrover³

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“…15 Furthermore, McKeown shows that the rhythm in the ups and downs of the migration to these three centres around the globe was remarkably similar, which leads him to conclude that all three were integrated in the same global economic economy (Figure 1). 16 Finally, McKeown proposes not to take 1918 or 1924 as the end of the period of mass migration but 1940.…”

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Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier

Lucassen¹

2007

Int Rev of Soc His

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Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving Europeans, published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in migration history into the general social and economic history of western Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new studies have proved her point and refined her model.

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“…Scholarship on Chinese labor migration has hitherto focused largely on the years after circa 1850 (McKeown, 2004). However, as Craig Lockard (2013) reminds us, Chinese labor migration to Southeast Asia has a much longer history.…”

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Slavery in a Remote but Global Place: the British East India Company and Bencoolen, 1685-1825

Allen¹

2018

HSE

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Histories of the British East India Company usually ignore the company’s use of slave labor. Records from its factory at Bencoolen in Sumatra provide an opportunity to examine company attitudes and policies toward its chattel work force in greater detail. These sources reveal that the company drew slaves from a global catchment area to satisfy the demand for labor in its far-flung commercial empire, shed light on policies and practices regarding the treatment of company slaves, and illustrate the company’s role in the development of increasingly interconnected free and forced labor trades during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Bencoolen case study also highlights the need to examine colonial migrant labor systems in the Indian Ocean and maritime Asia worlds in more fully developed contexts.

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Global Migration, 1846–1940

Cited by 304 publications

References 58 publications

Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier

Slavery in a Remote but Global Place: the British East India Company and Bencoolen, 1685-1825

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