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From mobility transition to comparative global migration history*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Jan Lucassen  and
Leo Lucassen
Jan Lucassen
Affiliation:
International Institute for Social History, The Netherlands E-mail: jlu@iisg.nl
Leo Lucassen
Affiliation:
University of Leiden, The Netherlands E-mail: L.A.C.J.Lucassen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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Discussion — Global Migration
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Journal of Global History , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , July 2011 , pp. 299 - 307
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2 See also Dirk Hoerder, ‘Segmented macrosystems and networking individuals: the balancing functions of migration processes’, in Lucassen, Jan and Lucassen, Leo, eds., Migration, migration history, history: old paradigms and new perspectives, Bern: Peter Lang, 1997, pp. 73–84Google Scholar.

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14 See also Jelle van Lottum, ‘Labour migration and economic performance: London and the Randstad, c. 1600–1800’, Economic History Review, forthcoming, published online August 2010, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00547.x/pdf (consulted 9 April 2011).

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