Rethinking Social Spaces in an Epochal Comparison: Concepts and Approaches in Historical Migration Research

Migration shapes societies and cultures, and it was doing so well before the current »refugee phase«. Interdisciplinary migration research has for several decades been attempting to identify unifying and dividing forces within and between migration societies. In doing so, it makes use of concepts and methodological approaches that in recent years have been considerably extended by new techniques from the social and cultural sciences and from mobility Studies in particular. Particularly notable in this respect is the use of the concept of »multiple mobilities« in these fields.

CfP: Immigrazioni. International migrations and labor from the 70s to the present: an historical perspective

The complex intertwining of immigration and labor market is a highly topical subject even nowadays: the forced displacements we are witnessing in recent years are, in fact, only a portion of the migration to Western Countries, from World War II until the present day.

International Women's Day event 'Remembering resistance: a century of women's protest in the North of England'

Event location: 

Working Class Movement Library

51 Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX, UK. 

Date: 2nd Mar 2019

Event time: 14:00 to 16:00

An afternoon focussed on a project bringing to life the last 100 years of women’s protest, discussing the changing nature of women’s activism and some of the more significant protest sites in the North.

State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

Dr. Christine Moll-Murata has published her new monograph State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in the new IISH book series Social History of Work in Asia, published with Amsterdam University Press (AUP). This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911.

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