1. Migrations and Diasporas
Caravans and Galleons
Tutor: Giorgio Riello
Week 5
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Migrations and Diasporas

2. Introduction: Migration and Diasporas
1. Approaches to the Study of Migration and Diasporas
2. Diasporas and Migrations in Eurasia before 1800
1. Early Expansions: The Arabs and Mongols
2. The Expansion of the Islamic Empires
3. Migration and Trade in the Indian Ocean
4. The Chinese Diaspora
5. The European Expansion: Portugal, the Dutch and the British
Conclusion

3. 2.1 Historical Linguistics

4. 2.1 Historical Linguistics
Languages of the World
Each dot represents the primary location of a living language

5. 2.2 Religious History

6. 2.3. Migration and the World History Approach

7. 2.4. Sociology of the Study of Migration
Robin Cohen, Cambridge Survey of World Migration and Global Diasporas (1997). Adam McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii,

8. 2.5. Postmodern Approach: The World of Cultural Studies

9. In David Christian, Maps of Time (Berkeley, 2004), pp. 344-45.

13. In Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient (Berkeley, 1998), p. 103..

15. 3.4. The Chinese Diaspora
“A visitor to Earth in 1400, if asked to guess which people would lead the process of globalization about the unfold, would probably have predicted that it would be the Chinese”
(Robert Clarke, The Global Imperative, p. 69).

17. 3.5. The ‘European Expansion’