Revisiting the Age of Mass Migration: the Latin American Experience
CALL FOR PAPERS
World Economic History Congress, Paris 2022
The Age of Mass Migration – defined as the unprecedented level of international migration observed globally from the 1850s to the 1920s – was one of the largest processes of intercontinental factor reallocation in human history. Interest in the classical historiography on this theme has been revived recently as a consequence of the upsurge in modern international migration. In particular, scholars have turned to the experiences of the Age of Mass Migration to cast light onto the expected consequences of current global migration. In this, immigration policies and integration strategies in Latin America have attracted increasingly more attention.
The purpose of this session is to provide a platform to discuss the recent historiography and new contributions to the study of the Age of Mass Migration in Latin America. The organizers invite researchers to submit paper proposals that are geographically focused on Latin American (and potentially also on the Caribbean). The panel welcomes topics related to the Age of Mass Migration broadly, referring to its causes, short-term economic and social consequences, as well as studies on long-run effects of migratory inflows.
Interested participants are requested to submit an abstract of maximum 500 words and a short-CV to bwitzel1@gwdg.de until August 15, 2021. Accepted proposals will be notified by December 10, 2021. The organizers wish to circulate the working papers among all participants one month before the congress (which will take place on July 25-29, 2022).
Organizers: Bruno Witzel de Souza (University of Göttingen); André Lanza (University of São Paulo); Blanca Sánchez-Alonso (Universidad San Pablo CEU).
Keynote speaker: Herbert Klein (Columbia/Stanford). Confirmed participants: Federico Droller (Universidad de Santiago de Chile); Comarc Ó Grada (University College Dublin); Aldo Musacchio (Brandeis University); Santiago Pérez (UC Davis).
