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In this article we plead for a less state-centered definition of migration that allows us to understand better the relationship between cross-cultural migrations and social change and social development in the long run. Therefore, we developed a method that enables us to systematically compare CCMRs (cross-cultural migrations per capita) through time and space. This CCMR method puts issues of state policies and citizenship in a much broader social context. We conclude that the presentist approach to migration in the social sciences is highly myopic, as it privileges migrations crossing state borders over internal moves, and favors migrants who have the intention to settle for good. In itself this is a legitimate choice, especially if the core explanandum is the way migrants' long-term settlement process in another (modern) state evolves. In the more empirical parts of this article however we have concentrated on the effects of Eurasian societies since 1500 that have received migrants. Sending societies and individual migrants and nonmigrants in sending and receiving societies have been largely left out. Finally, and paradoxically, integration and assimilation in the long run leads to diminishing opportunities of social development by cross-cultural experiences, because one could argue that due to globalizing migrations cultures converge further and thus cultural boundaries (as is already the case in migration to cities within culturally homogenous nation-states in the twentieth century) become less salient or disappear entirely. Logically speaking, this is also an implication of the model, presently to be developed further.

In this article we explain why the Dutch nativist turn from the 1990s onwards was nourished both by the political left and the right and what the role was of specific Dutch developments in secularization and libertarian attitudes

Most people do not consider diplomats, corporate expatriates, missionaries, scholars, or soldiers to be migrants. Even migration scholars often pay little attention to people whose migratory behavior is primarily determined by the interests of the organization they work for. The reason for this blind spot is not the lack of analytical tools. In his landmark 1971 paper on the mobility transition, the geographer Wilbur Zelinsky already acknowledged the importance of such—often highly skilled—migrants. Five years later, Charles Tilly made a similar point in his migration typology, which was adopted in the overview of migration in Western Europe by Leslie Page Moch, by explicitly distinguishing "career migrants." Notwithstanding the inclusion of what we label "organizational migrants" by leading scholars, in the mainstream migration historiography attention to their mobility is conspicuously lacking.

Preliminary Material -- Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective: An Introduction /Ulbe Bosma , Gijs Kessler and Leo Lucassen -- Mobility and Belonging in Antiquity: Greeks and Barbarians on the Move in the Northern Black Sea Region /Christel Müller -- Migration, Belonging and Identity in the Mesa Verde Region of the Southwestern United States /Mark D. Varien -- From the Senegal River to Siin: The Archaeology of Sereer Migrations in North-Western Senegambia /Ibrahima Thiaw -- Socio-political Structure, Membership and Mobility in the Pre-Modern Malay World: The Case of Singapore in the 14th Century /Derek Heng -- Favouring Foreign Traders? The Venetian Republic and the Accommodation of Netherlandish Merchants in the late 16th and 17th Centuries /Maartje van Gelder -- To Become Chinese: Cultural Consciousness and Political Legitimacy in Early Medieval China (220–681) /Mu-Chou Poo -- "Becoming Roman, Becoming Barbarian": Roman Citizenship and the Assimilation of Barbarians into the Late Roman World /Ralph W. Mathisen -- Kings, Kinsmen and Others: The Theory and Practice of Andean Allegiances /Susan Elizabeth Ramírez -- The Possibilities of Empire: Russian Sectarian Migration to South Caucasia and the Refashioning of Social Boundaries /Nicholas B. Breyfogle -- About the Authors -- References -- Name Index -- Geographical Index -- Subject Index.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Immigrant Integration in Western Europe, Then and Now / Lucassen, Leo / Feldman, David / Oltmer, Jochen -- PART I: THEN AND NOW: CONVERGENT COMPARISONS -- Poles and Turks in the German Ruhr Area: Similarities and Differences / Lucassen, Leo -- Old and New Migrants in France: Italians and Algerians / Blanc-Chaléard, Marie-Claude -- Rural Dimensions at Stake: The Case of Italian Immigrants in Southwestern France / Teulières, Laure -- Assigning the State its Rightful Place? Migration, Integration and the State in Germany / Schönwälder, Karen -- 'To Live as Germans Among Germans.' Immigration and Integration of 'Ethnic Germans' in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic / Oltmer, Jochen -- Aussiedler in Germany: From Smooth Adaptation to Tough Integration / Dietz, Barbara -- PART II: HERE AND THERE: DIVERGENT COMPARISONS -- Polish Berlin: Differences and Similarities with Poles in the Ruhr Area, 1860-1920 / Praszałowicz, Dorota -- A Passage from India: Trajectories of Economic Integration in London and Mediterranean Europe / Falzon, Mark-Anthony -- Afro-Caribbean Migrants in France and the United Kingdom / Brown, Laurence -- PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND INTEGRATION -- Trade Unions and Immigrant Incorporation: The US and Europe Compared / Schmitter-Heisler, Barbara -- No More than a Keg of Beer: The Coherence of German Immigrant Communities / Schrover, Marlou -- Religious Newcomers and the Nation-State: Flows and Closures / Sunier, Thijl -- American Immigrants Look at their Americanisation / Schneider, Dorothee -- PART IV: CONCLUSION -- Drawing Up the Balance Sheet / Lucassen, Leo / Feldman, David / Oltmer, Jochen -- About the Authors -- References -- Index