Immigration is not only a modern-day debate. Major change in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a surge of political and religious refugees moving across the continent. ...Estimates suggest that from 1550 to 1585 around 50,000 Dutch and Walloons from the southern Netherlands settled in England, and in the late seventeenth century 50,000 Huguenots from France followed suit. The majority gravitated towards London which, already a magnet for merchants and artisans across the centuries, began a process of major transformation. New skills, capital, technical know-how and social networks came with these migrants and helped to spark London's cosmopolitan flair and diversity. But the early experience of many of these immigrants in London was one of hostility, serving to slow down the adoption and expansion of new crafts and technologies. Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700 examines the origins and the changing face and shape of many trades, crafts and skills in the capital in this transformative period. It focuses on three crafts in particular: silk weaving, beer brewing and the silver trade, crafts which had relied heavily on foreign skills in the 16th century and had become major industries in the capital by the 18th century. Each craft was established by a different group of immigrants, distinguished not only by their social backgrounds, social organisation, identity, motives, migration pattern and experience and links with their home country but also by the nature of their reception, assimilation and economic contribution. Change was a protracted process in the London of the day. Immigrants endured inferior status, discrimination and sometimes exclusion, and this affected both their ability to integrate and their willingness to share trade secrets. And resistance by the English population meant that the adoption of new skills often took a long time - in some cases more than three centuries - to complete. The book places the adoption of new crafts and technologies in London within a broader European context, and relates it to the phenomenal growth of the metropolis and technological developments within these specific trades. It throws new perspectives on the movement of skills from Europe and the transmission of know-how from the immigrant population to English artisans. The book explores how, through enterprise and persistence, the immigrants' contribution helped transform London from a peripheral and backward European city to become the workshop of the world by the nineteenth century. By way of conclusion the book brings the current immigration debate full circle to examine the lessons we can draw from this early-modern experience.
Contents: Introduction: Migration and the diffusion of skills; Trade and consumption; Government and the import of foreign skills; Immigrants in Elizabethan London; Reception and treatment of immigrants; Silk industry; Silver trade; Beer brewing; Conclusion: Immigration in a historical perspective; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Lien Bich Luu is Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK
This study provides the first book-length account of US-Habsburg relations from their origins in the early nineteenth century through the aftermath of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference. By ...including not only high-level diplomacy but also an analysis of diplomats' ceremonial and social activities, as well as an exploration of consular efforts to determine the citizenship status of thousands of individuals who migrated between the two countries, Nicole M. Phelps demonstrates the influence of the Habsburg government on the integration of the United States into the nineteenth-century great power system and the influence of American racial politics on the Habsburg empire's conceptions of nationalism and democracy. In the crisis of World War I, the US-Habsburg relationship transformed international politics from a system in which territorial sovereignty protected diversity to one in which nation-states based on racial categories were considered ideal.
Most modern democracies contain significant minority groups whose language, religion, or ethnicity differs from those of the majority. In this book, leading scholars of multicultural issues examine ...questions related to multiculturalism and citizenship, specifically addressing the issue of whether it is possible in multicultural societies to accommodate these forms of diversity without weakening the bonds of common citizenship. The first chapter is introductory. The fourteen that follow are arranged in seven parts, each with two chapters, that address Citizenship Education and Religious Diversity; Political Participation and Group Representation; Immigration, Identity and Multiculturalism; Gender and Ethnic Diversity; Language Rights; The Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Federalism and Nationalism.
Cette étude explore la boîte noire de la gestion de la diversité au sein de 60 entreprises situées hors des grands centres urbains. Les entretiens montrent que l’ampleur des convictions des ...dirigeants en matière de diversité influence leurs stratégies et pratiques RH, les actions des cadres intermédiaires et des responsables RH, le climat organisationnel, les résultats en matière d’attraction, d’intégration et de rétention des travailleurs immigrants et ultimement, la performance à des niveaux individuel, organisationnel, social et sociétal. Des voies d’action sont proposées pour faire de la gestion de la diversité un véritable changement organisationnel source d’avantage compétitif.
La retraite au Canada a fait l’objet de plusieurs recherches, mais peu d’études ont comparé le passage de la vie active à la retraite des natifs et des immigrants ainsi que leurs caractéristiques une ...fois à la retraite, une lacune importante compte tenu de l’augmentation de la part des immigrants parmi les futures cohortes canadiennes de retraités. Cette étude descriptive vise à pallier cette lacune à l’aide des données de l’Enquête sociale générale de 2016. Les résultats montrent, entre autres, que les femmes et les hommes natifs ont plus de chances de prendre leur retraite que les immigrants, quel que soit le groupe d’âge étudié, et que l’âge moyen à la retraite des femmes et hommes immigrants est de deux ans supérieur à celui des natifs. Cette étude suggère que le statut d’immigrant implique une transition vers la retraite différente de celle vécue par les natifs ; différence qui devrait être considérée dans la structure du système de revenus de retraite.
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