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9 - Soldiers and Sailors as Migrants

from Part III - Specialized Migrations and Commercial Diasporas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Leo Lucassen
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.

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MigrationSoldiersMilitaryEmpireWarColonizationReturn MigrationSailorsNavyDesertion
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 201 - 219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Barkawi, Tarak. Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Höhn, Maria and Klimke, Martin. A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Google Scholar
Höhn, Maria and Moon, Seunsook, eds. Over There: Living with the US Military Empire from World War Two to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Lucassen, Jan and Lucassen, Leo. “Theorizing Cross-Cultural Migrations: The Case of Eurasia since 1500.” Social Science History 41, 3 (2017), 445–475.Google Scholar
Lucassen, Leo and Smit, Aniek X.. “The Repugnant Other: Soldiers, Missionaries and Aid Workers as Organizational Migrants.” Journal of World History 26, 1 (2015), 1–39.Google Scholar
Rass, Christoph, ed. Militärische Migration vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Siegelbaum, Lewis H. and Moch, Leslie P.. Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia’s Twentieth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Storm, Eric and Al Tuma, Ali, eds. Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914–1945: “Aliens in Uniform” in Wartime Societies. London: Routledge, 2015.Google Scholar
Tozzi, Christopher J. Nationalizing France’s Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715–1831. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.Google Scholar

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