European Expansion and Migration: Essays on the Inter-Continental Migration from Africa, Asia and Europe.

Abstract

This is a collection of articles investigating the relationship between European expansion and international In surveying these long distance migrations we will first attempt to establish the relative quantitative volume of the various movements [since 1500]. Secondly attention will be paid to the demographic socioeconomic and cultural differences that existed and still exist between the international migrants from Europe Africa and Asia. Finally a balance sheet of the various migration movements will be drawn up in an attempt at predicting the future of intercontinental migrations now that Europe has virtually dissolved its empires. The authors examine i) push-pull factors ii) the demography of the sending regions iii) female migration iv) transportation v) integration or isolation in the receiving areas vi) return migration [and] vii) capital movements related to migration. (EXCERPT)