Themes:
1. How lessons from the past may help address
questions related to migrations today.
Issues like integration, assimilation,
segregation, multiculturalism, cultural pluralism, xenophobia and problems of
the third generation immigrants were already discussed during time of the great
migration by historians like Louis Adamic and Marcus Lee Hansen.
2. Shaping Europe´s identity: Internal
migrations - past and present.
Internal migrations involved about half or more
of the total European populations by the middle of the 1800s, and transborder
migrations was particularly high for Poles and Italians. The rebuilding of
Europe after World War II, the creation, and
later enlargements of EU, the Balkan wars, the dissolution of the Soviet Union,
and the present global financial crisis, have in various ways established new
forms of mobilities.
