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Migration and Mobility Through the Lens of History

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Abstract

This chapter examines how the study of population movement in the past has been approached by scholars from a range of disciplines, and how greater engagement with concepts currently used in much mobilities research might alter and possibly enhance the historical study of migration, mobility and transport. I focus on three aspects of movement: international migration, internal migration, and everyday mobility; and in conclusion consider the role of transport in all forms of population movement. Examples are drawn from a variety of locations and time periods. In the chapter I demonstrate the ways in which different approaches to population movement may be unified and enhanced through the use of concepts drawn from mobilities studies.

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Notes

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    Diary of Ida Berry 1902–1907, July 26, 1905: Bishopsgate Institute Archive, London: GDP/8.

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    Ambleside oral history archive: Respondent DX1; DoB 1910.

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Pooley, C.G. (2017). Migration and Mobility Through the Lens of History. In: Mobility, Migration and Transport. Palgrave Studies in Migration History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51883-1_2

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