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Paths of integration, migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004), Leo Lucassen, David Feldman, Jochen Oltmer, eds

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Paths of integration

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Leo Lucassen, David Feldman, Jochen Oltmer, eds

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migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004)

In the 1990s, as concern grew in the United States about the integration of large numbers of immigrants, scholars searching for historical parallels looked to the last great period of immigration, from 1880 to 1914. That example, however, is generally viewed as inapplicable to the current immigration debates in Europe. Paths of Integration turns this conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the history of European migration more closely parallels the U.S. experience than most realize, due to the largely ignored, but extensive, intra-European migration of the same period. By placing the European and U.S. examples side by side, the contributors to this volume offer long-term insights on a question that will be of great importance in the coming decades.--, Provided by publisher