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This volume contains papers presented at the session on Models and Methods in Migration Research at the 1982 International Economic History Congress in Budapest. In the 19th and 20th centuries North and South America provided the great stage for the migration drama where migration assumed extraordinary dimensions and where it left a legacy of social and economic problems that are still relevant for out time. The migration phenomenon assumes its most dramatic form in the US where rapid economic growth due to historically high ratios of labor productivity and capital accumulation in the 19th Century provided an extraordinary impulse to immigration. Migration in the US is considered from 3 perspectives: 1) in terms of the flows of groups or individuals coming from Europe; 2) in terms of the status and occupation of the emigrants in their country of origion; and 3) in terms of the status they attained in the US. In addition to the studies that illustrate the migration process in various countries others offer information on source materials on new methods and technics in the field as well as critical surveys of the migration literature for many of the countries under study. International migration international demographic movements and assimilation of migrant populations in their new place of settlement provide over a long period the real key to the understanding of society and in particular to the comprehension of American society. The multiplication of these studies will confirm the conviction that population movements have been responsible in every epoch of the world for the rebirth of society unleashing new and powerful energies over immense spaces so that weary peoples might satisfy basic human needs.
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