World Migration in the Long Twentieth Century

Moya and McKeown examine the concept of mass migration as it developed as a new socioeconomic phenomenon in the nineteenth century, and its impact on world culture throughout the twentieth century.


Author: Jose C. Moya, Adam McKeown
Publisher: American Historical Association
Published: 01/01/2011
Pages: 56
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9780872291782
ISBN10: 0872291782
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- History | Social History
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General

About the Author

Jose Moya is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he also directs the Forum on Migration. His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 (1998) received five awards, and the journal Historical Methods devoted a forum to its theoretical contributions to migration studies.

Adam McKeown is associate professor of history at Columbia University, where he teaches courses on the history of globalization, world migration, and drugs. He has published Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders (2008) and is working on a history of globalization since 1760.