Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Section 1. Europe and Siberia -- Measuring and quantifying cross-cultural migrations : an introduction / Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen -- Catherine's dilemma : resettlement and power in Russia, 1500s-1914 / Willard Sunderland -- Measuring migration in Russia : a perspective of empire, 1500-1900 / Gijs Kessler -- Section 2. South Asia -- Mapping migrations of South Indian weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar period : thirteenth to eighteenth centuries / Vijaya Ramaswamy -- South Indian migration, c. 1800-1950 / Sunil S. Amrith -- Section 3. South East Asia -- Migration and colonial enterprise in nineteenth century Java / Ulbe Bosma -- Toward cities, seas, and jungles : migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750-1850 / Atsushi Ota -- The art of (not) looking back : reconsidering Lisu migrations and "Zomia" / Mireille Mazard -- Migration in an age of change : the migration effect of decolonization and industrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900-2000 / Jelle van Lottum -- Section 4. East Asia -- A different transition : human mobility in China, 1600-1900 / Adam McKeown -- Han Chinese immigrants in Manchuria, 1850-1931 / Yuki Umeno -- From Mao to the present : migration in China since the Second World War / Jianfa Shen -- Cross-cultural migrations in Japan in a comparative perspective, 1600-2000 / Leo Lucassen, Osamu Saito, and Ryuto Shimada -- Section 5. Conclusion -- Summary and concluding remarks / Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen.

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