Cultures in contact: global migrations during the second millennium

Conference

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17 May 2015

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14 June 2017

Colloquia

The archaeology of Migrations

International colloquium organized by Inrap, in partnership with the National Museum of Immigration History.
November 12 and 13, 2015 at the National Museum of Immigration History.

Archaeology of Migrations
by Dirk Hoerder, University of Arizona

With a brief vignette of migrations across the millennia I will illustrate the multidisciplinary approach to migration research and discuss a spatial approach to migration and an agency approach to migrant decision-making. In chronological sequence I will summarize migration in the period 700-1400, move to the early modern period, 19^th-century and late 20^th-century periods. In this survey I will discuss local-to-local migrations in a global perspective and the aggregation of many migrations into transcontinental and transoceanic migration systems.

Dirk Hoerder taught at Universität Bremen, 1977-2008, and Arizona State University, 2007-2011 . His areas of interest are U.S. and Canadian social history and historiography, global migrations, and sociology of migrant acculturation. His publications include Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2002), which has received the Social Science History Association's Sharlin Prize, and the coedited The Historical Practice of Diversity: Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World (2003). An introduction to Migration Studies is Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder with Donna Gabaccia, What is Migration History? (2009).

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