Includes bibliographical references and index

Putting migration into history. Explaining migration patterns ; Region, state, and city ; Individuals, social relations, and migration systems ; Definitions and data -- Migration in preindustrial Europe. The character of the age ; The politics of migration : war, empire, and intolerance ; Migration in the preindustrial countryside ; Family, service, and marriage ; Inheritance and landholding ; Portrait of a migration system ; Movement to the preindustrial city -- Migration in the age of early industry ; The character of the age: politics, population, and landholding ; "Hybrid societies" and the family economy ; Early industry and migration ; The expansion of temporary migration ; Portrait of a migration system ; Vagrancy, crime, and illegitimacy : the marginal migrant ; Migration to eighteenth-century towns and cities -- Migration in an age of urbanization and industrialization ; The character of the age : war, peace, and migration ; Rural Europe ; Population and landholding in the nineteenth century ; The disintegration of rural livelihoods ; Changing patterns of circular migration ; The example of East Elbia ; Migration and urbanization ; Migrants and the urban economy ; Crime and illegitimacy : the marginal migrant ; Migration to the Americas ; Patterns of transatlantic migration ; A global labor force ; The process of transatlantic migration -- Migration in the twentieth century ; Mgration among European nations, 1914-1945 ; Population, migration, and urbanization after 1914 ; Foreign labor in postwar Europe, 1945-1973 ; From migrant labor to ethnic minority : the Turks in Germany ; Immigration since 1973

Moving Europeans tells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines the links between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed European life. This update of a classic text describes the Western European migration from the pre-industrial era to the year 2000. For this new edition, Leslie Page Moch reconsiders the 20th century in light of fundamental changes in labor, years of conflict, and the new migrations following the end of colonial empires, the fall of communism, and globalization. This new edition also features a greatly expanded and up-to-date bibliography. A new, updated edition of the "best general book" on the impact of migration in Western Europe