These are some of the burning questions, which dominate the current politicized debate on immigration in Western Europe. In this book, leading historians and social scientists analyze and compare a variety of settlement processes in past and present migration to Western Europe.

This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOE book series.

By analyzing and comparing a wealth of settlement processes both in the past and in the present this book is both a bold interdisciplinary endeavor, and at the same time the first attempt to identify general factors underlying the way migrants adapt to their new surroundings, as well as how societies change under the influence of immigration.

The chapters in the book both look at specific groups in various periods, but also analyses the structure of the state, churches unions and other important organized actors in Western European nation states.

Moreover, the results are embedded in the more theoretical American literature on the comparison of old and new migrants. All chapters have an explicit comparative perspective, either by comparing different groups or different periods, whereas the general conclusion ties together the various outcomes in a systematic way, highlighting the main answers to the central questions about the various outcomes of settlement processes.

The IMISCOE-AUP Book Series are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme.

IMISCOE Network of Excellence
Karen Kraal (Communication Officer), tel. +31 (0)20 525 3659

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Leo Lucassen is professor of Social History at Leiden University and is also engaged at the University of Amsterdam. Jochen Oltmer is professor of Modern History at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück. David Feldman is reader in history at Birkbeck College, London.

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Urban Policy

Social inclusion & integration