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Intercontinental migration as a world historical process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

P. C. Emmer
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Abstract

Human migration has a long and complicated history. A survey of the various migration streams reveals that between 1492 and the present, Europeans have benefitted in much greater numbers from the ‘migration escape hatch’ than have Africans and Asians.

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FOCUS—Migration
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European Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 66 - 74
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 1993

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