Volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Global Migrations conceptualizes and organizes major themes and dynamics concerning migration across global and local scales through articles by an international array of experts. This...
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume II: Migrations, 1800-Present, presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day....
Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed...
«Naquele tempo os que iam da Argentina se conheciam pelo bigode e umas correntes as que chamavam eles cadenas - aquilo era ouro, compreende?» Estas palavras evocam uma imagem familiar dos anos de apogeu da emigração...
This chapter discusses the emotional dynamics of migration in two main areas: migration experience and politics of migration. The first section considers migration experiences at the individual, family and community levels. ...
Labor migration was a common strategy for Portuguese families at the turn of the twentieth century. Correspondence provided a vehicle to keep families connected and a space to sustain and recreate their relationships and...
On September 2, 2015, a photograph of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean went viral, spreading through social networks and into the media, accompanied by calls...
First-person accounts, documents of life, life writing, ego-documents: called by different names according to discipline and approach, narratives of the self have attracted attention from historians and other scholars in the...
The unprecedented increase in transoceanic migrations in the second half of the nineteenth century was a major catalyst for an explosion in letter-writing and for the expansion of letter-writing to the working classes. Through...
