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Wanderungstraditionen und Wanderungssysteme am Ende der Frühen Neuzeit [2002]
Migration traditions and migration systems at the end of early modern Europe
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Abstract Fundamental and incomparable differences in traffic conditions aside, people in late medieval and early modern Europe showed even more mobility than people do in today's world. The majority of people was on the move, for most various motives und purposes, heading to a wide range of destinations near... view more
Fundamental and incomparable differences in traffic conditions aside, people in late medieval and early modern Europe showed even more mobility than people do in today's world. The majority of people was on the move, for most various motives und purposes, heading to a wide range of destinations nearby or far away. This mobility shaped numerous migration traditions and migration systems. Migration historians Jan and Leo Lucassen identified more than seven long-distance labor migration systems in early modern Europe, with the transnational movement of the 'Hollandgänger' (agrarian labor migrants from western parts of Germany heading to the Netherlands) as one of the most important systems. Within labor migration systems, small business men formed out their own migration systems, spanning the whole of Europe from France in the west to Russia in the east. At the dawn of industrialization, these migration systems came to an end or were transformed by new ones, e.g. the agrarian North Sea system was replaced by the industrial 'Ruhr system,' and while the system of 'Hollandgänger' from the western parts of Germany declined, the new migrant labor system of industrial and agrarian 'Preußengänger' (migrants to Prussia) came to the fore.... view less
Keywords
labor migration; mobility; Europe; international migration; motivation; migration; early modern times
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
migration traditions; migration systems; agrarian and industrial migrant workers; migrant systems of small businessmen
Document language
German
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 235-265
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2018) 30
Issue topic
Historische Migrationsforschung / Historical Migration Research
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.30.2018.235-265
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed