The Cambridge Survey of World Migration 0521444055, 9780521444057

Table of contents :
Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Notes on the contributors
Prologue
European colonization and settlement
The British colonies of settlement
Emigration to the Dutch colonies and the USA
Spanish migration to the Americas
French colonial migration
The growth of restrictive immigration policies in the colonies of settlement
Asian indentured and colonial migration
Indentured migrants from Japan
Chinese indentured labour: coolies and colonies
Indian indentured migration to the Caribbean
Indian indentured workers in Mauritius, Natal and Fiji
Sikh free and military migration during the colonial period
The settlement of South Asians in East Africa
The great Atlantic migration to North America
The Irish and the ‘famine exodus’ of 1847
The Scandinavian migrants
Unbroken links: Portuguese emigration to the USA
East Europeans on the move
Migration from the German and Austro-Hungarian empires to North America
A continuing presence: North America's Ukrainians
The Italian diaspora, 1876–1976
Migration in Europe, 1800–1950
Moving Europeans: historical migration practices in western Europe
Germany: migrations in Europe up to the end of the Weimar Republic
Wanderers or migrants? Gypsies from eastern to western Europe, 1860–1940
Italians and Poles in France, 1880–1945
Russians and Armenians in France
Jewish economic and refugee migrations, 1880–1950
The resettlement of displaced persons in Europe, 1946–1951
Migration in Africa
Forced labour and migration in Portugal's African colonies
The politics of international migration in post-colonial Africa
Cheap gold: mine labour in southern Africa
Migrant labour and the state under apartheid, 1948–1989
Regional labour migration systems in East Africa: continuity and change
Labour migration in French North Africa
People on the move in West Africa: from pre-colonial polities to post-independence states
Latin and Central American migration
Uruguayan migration
European and Asian migration to Brazil
European migration to Argentina, 1880–1930
The Chinese of Peru, Cuba and Mexico
The migration of labour in Colombia
Central American refugees to the USA
Chile's exiles and their return: two faces of expatriation
Migration to North America after 1945
Mexican immigration to the USA: the contradictions of border control
Anglophone Caribbean migration to the USA and Canada
Migratory trends in Puerto Rico: 1950 to the present
A comparative view of Asian immigration to the USA
Contemporary migration from Africa to the USA
Migration to Canada in the post-war period
Labour migration to western Europe after 1945
‘New Commonwealth’ migration to the UK
Turkish migration to Europe
Former Yugoslavia: long waves of international migration
Labour migration to France
Labour migration to Sweden: the Finnish case
Switzerland: a non-immigration immigration country
From workers to immigrants: Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands, 1965–1992
Italy and Greece: from emigrants to immigrants
Portugal and Spain: from exporters to importers of labour
Repatriates and colonial auxiliaries
The repatriation of Soviet citizens at the end of the Second World War
The repatriation of Indian Tamil plantation workers from Sri Lanka to India
The migration of East African Asians to the UK
The repatriation of Portuguese from Africa
East and West Indian migration to the Netherlands
Repatriation of African exiles: the decision to return
Migration in Asia and Oceania
The separation of India and Pakistan
Bangladeshi migration: an impact study
Migration: Nepal and India
Illegal migrant workers in Japan
Asian migration to Australia
The Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong
Southern European migration to Australia: diasporic networks and cultural transformations
Migration and the formation of Malaysia and Singapore
Illegal international migration in Asia
Migration in the Middle East
Zionist immigration and colonization in Palestine until 1948
The displacement of the Palestinians
The Palestinian diaspora
Asian migrant and contract workers in the Middle East
Displaced people after the Gulf crisis
Refugees from political conflict
Refugees, displaced people and returnees in southern Africa
Hunger, war and flight: the Horn of Africa
US admission policies towards Cuban and Haitian migrants
Refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, 1975–1993
Refugees and asylum in the Muslim world
Development and forced migration: the case of Afghan refugee women in Pakistan
Migrants and asylum-seekers in contemporary Europe
European East-West migration, 1945–1992
Internal movement in the European Community
Migration and Soviet disintegration
Migrations in socialist and post-socialist Russia
Whose protection? European harmonization on asylum policy
Soviet Jewish emigration
Emerging trends
Contract labour migration
Skilled transients: the invisible phenomenon?
The many faces of immigrant entrepreneurship
The emergence of trans-Pacific migration
Illegal migration
The urbanization of the globe
Women migrants: from marginal subjects to social actors
Ethical problems of immigration control and citizenship
International security and population movements
Acknowledgements and credits
Index