Dr Chris Minns, C319

Optional course for students taking MSc Economic History, MSc Economic History (Research), LSE-Columbia University Double Degree in International and World History, MSc Global History and LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Development Economics and Economic History and MA Global Studies: A European Perspective.

The course examines major issues in international migration over the last 500 years. The course will consider free and coerced migration in the early modern period, the emergence (and eventual decline) of mass migration in the later 19th century, and the rise of "managed" migration in the post World War II period.

The course will examine the economic foundations of indentured servitude and slavery in the early modern period, and the interactions between these two types of labour. The contribtion of economic and demographic forces to the rise of mass migration on destination and source labour markets, the determinants of immigrant destination choice, and the interplay between migration and exogenous crises in Europe. In the post World War II environment, the focus will be on the political impact of mass migration on developing economies in the present day. In this part of the course, we will consider how historical episodes of migration can inform the present day.

10 weekly two-hour seminar lectures in Lent Term.

Two pieces of written work.

D Baines, Emigration from Europe (1991); G Borjas, Heaven's Door: immigration policy and the American economy (1999)*; T Boeri, G Hanson, and B McCormick (eds), Immigration policy and the welfare state 2002)*; D Galenson, White servitude in colonial America: an economic analysis (1981)*; T J Hatton and J G Williamson, The age of mass migration (1998): T J Hatton and J G Williamson, Global migration and the world economy: two centuries of policy and performance (2005)*.

A two-hour written exam in the Summer Term.