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8 - Europe’s Postcolonial Migrations since 1945

from Part II - Empires, New Nations, and Mobilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Elizabeth Buettner
Edited by
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

Keywords

Asian Immigration RestrictionImmigration ExclusionJapanese MigrationChinese MigrationSouth Asian MigrationEuropean MigrationWhite SupremacySettler ColonialismImperialismCapitalism
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 180 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Bauböck, Rainer, Ersbøll, Eva, Groenendijk, Kees, and Waldrauch, Harald, eds. Acquisition and Loss of Nationality: Policies and Trends in 15 European States, Vol. 2: Country Analyses. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buettner, Elizabeth. Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buettner, Elizabeth. “Europeanising Migration in Multicultural Spain and Portugal during and after the Decolonisation Era.” Itinerario 44, 1 (2020), 159–177.Google Scholar
Gatrell, Peter. The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present. London: Allen Lane, 2019.Google Scholar
Keaton, Trica Danielle, Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean, and Stovall, Tyler, eds. Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Laschi, Giuliana, Deplano, Valeria, and Pes, Alessandro, eds. Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945–1992). London: Routledge, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucassen, Leo. The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Pereira, Victor. “Portuguese Migrants and Portugal: Elite Discourse and Transnational Practices,” translated from the French by Miguel Cardoso, in A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections, ed. Green, Nancy L. and Waldinger, Roger David, 56–83. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perry, Kennetta Hammond. London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vertovec, Steven and Wessendorf, Susanne, eds. The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices. London: Routledge, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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