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"In het debat over migratie en integratie lopen de gemoederen hoog op. Meningen worden door velen in één moeite door als onomstotelijke feiten gepresenteerd. Integratiepessimisten zijn ervan overtuigd dat Nederland wordt bedreigd door massa-immigratie van moslims. De geschiedenis van de afgelopen vijf eeuwen laat zien dat onbehagen over migratie niets nieuws is, maar ook dat tijden van paniek en pessimisme worden afgewisseld door - soms lange - periodes van acceptatie. En met een nuchtere blik kun je vaststellen dat de vestiging van nieuwkomers ontegenzeglijk tot een aantal hardnekkige problemen heeft geleid, maar dat hun komst onze samenleving én hunzelf ook veel heeft opgeleverd. "Goed gefundeerde kennis is essentieel wanneer we de werkelijkheid beter willen begrijpen en politieke debatten op een zinvolle manier willen voeren," schrijven Leo en Jan Lucassen. 'Vijf eeuwen migratie' toetst meningen aan de historische feiten"

Preliminary Material -- Measuring and Quantifying Cross-Cultural Migrations: An Introduction /Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- Catherine's Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Russia, 1500s–1914 /Willard Sunderland -- Measuring Migration in Russia: A Perspective of Empire, 1500–1900 /Gijs Kessler -- Mapping Migrations of South Indian Weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar Period: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries /Vijaya Ramaswamy -- South Indian Migration, c. 1800–1950 /Sunil S. Amrith -- Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century Java /Ulbe Bosma -- Toward Cities, Seas, and Jungles: Migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750–1850 /Atsushi Ota -- The Art of (not) Looking Back: Reconsidering Lisu Migrations and "Zomia" /Mireille Mazard -- Migration in an Age of Change: The Migration Effect of Decolonization and Industrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900–2000 /Jelle van Lottum -- A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600–1900 /Adam McKeown -- Han Chinese Immigrants in Manchuria, 1850–1931 /Yuki Umeno -- From Mao to the Present: Migration in China since the Second World War /Jianfa Shen -- Cross-Cultural Migrations in Japan in a Comparative Perspective, 1600–2000 /Leo Lucassen , Osamu Saito and Ryuto Shimada -- Summary and Concluding Remarks /Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- References -- Name Index -- Geographical Index -- Subject Index.

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

Established in 1935, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) is one of the world's leading research institutes focused on social history and holds one of the richest collections in the field. This volume brings together thirty-five essays in honor of the IISH's longtime director Jaap Kloosterman, who built the institute into a world leader in the field.