Since the 1970s, migration history has become a booming field that has shown the importance of spatial movement for the development of societies as well as for individual people and their families. More recently, scholars such as Patrick Manning have taken this a step further, showing how various types of migration have been an engine of social change throughout the history of our species, from the emergence of Homo sapiens and its spread from Africa across the globe.

This lecture builds on these insights and offers a new perspective that goes beyond the gaze of the nation-state, balancing between people’s repertoires and prevailing migration regimes, from the urban to the imperial.

About the lecturer

Leo Lucassen is Professor Emeritus of Global Labour and Migration History at Leiden University and research fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. His research focuses on Global Migration History, Integration, Migration Systems, Migration Controls, Roma and the State, State Formation and Modernity, and Urban History. Leo seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary research on migration history and to contribute to the public debate on migration.

This lecture is arranged by the Institute for studies in Malmö’s history at Malmö University, the Transition Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives at Copenhagen University, and the Centre for Oresund Region Studies at Lund University

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