Migration history is both a prominent part of Global Labour
History as well as crucial element of Global Economic History.
The study of Global Labour History would be unthinkable without
the unfree migration (slavery, indentured labour, forced
migration, military migration), seasonal migration and so on. In
the study of Global Economic History migration movements play an
important role alongside other demographic factors. To fully
understand the causes and effects of migration and settlement
processes in the current globalising world, a long timeframe and
a global perspective are essential. Historical migration studies
have long focused primarily on the European and Atlantic worlds.
Since 2005 in a programmatic and long term project, the IISH
aims to broaden the perspective to include the full migration
experience of the non-Western world while proposing both a short
and long term series of studies to further this goal. To this
end the IISH in collaboration with the history department of the
University of Lei