'Globalising Migration History: the Eurasian experience (16th-21st centuries)' edited by IISH Research Fellow Jan Lucassen and IISH's coming Research Director Leo Lucassen, addresses the problem of assessing the rate of migrations in different societies and time periods.
Why are some societies more mobile than others? Has the current world reached the zenith of spatial mobility, as many assume? This new volume in the series Studies in Global Migration History presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium. Furthermore the volume is an explicit invitation to other (economic, cultural, social and political) historians to include migration more explicitly and systematically in their analyses.
Globalising Migration History. The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries) edited by Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen. Leiden, Boston, Brill Publishers, 2014.