Approaching migration in world history : how to use primary sources / author, Somak Biswas (Institute of Historical Research, London, UK).

Format:

Website/Database

Author/Creator:

Biswas, Somak, author.

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), contributor, commissioning body, digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research.

Methodology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2021.

Summary:

This case study will introduce you to the larger historical theme of migration and how it has made the modern world. It will familiarise you with the concepts, tools, and methods required to research migration and identify the various actors, networks, and institutions that partook in its processes. What were the different causes, context, and effects of certain kinds of historical migrations, for instance, and how do we understand them through a given primary source/s? Using the example of a British pamphlet titled 'Practical Guide to Workers' (1884), which concerns assisted passages - a key scheme in the project of imperial migration - this case study will show what questions to ask of given sources, how to interrogate the silences and presumptions that inhere in them, and ways to overcome them. While situating the given source in its historical context, you will also learn how to read such sources critically and in relation to other primary and secondary sources. You will be able to shed light on how different kinds of push and pull factors intersected in determining the scope and limits of migration schemes in different places of the world.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2022).

Publisher Number:

10.47594/RMPS_0185

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.