The dossier contains documents concerning the workshop on "European Expansion and Migration", held on 5-8 May 1988, in Gothenburg: list of participants; programme; correspondence on the organisation of the workshop;
minutes of the first session of the Organizing Committee for the May 1988 Conference on the "European Overseas Migration and Related Migratory Movements" held at the University of Gothenburg on 4 September 1987.
Paper "From Stockholm to San Francisco. The development of the historical study of external migrations" by Sune Åkerman.
Papers presented at the workshop: "Some comments on migration theory" by J. J. Mangalam; "An overview of European Emigration" by J. J. Mangalam; "Capital Movements and migration" by C. W. Newbury; "Émigration Portugaise"; "Italian emigration in the post-unification period (1861-1971)" by Luigi de Rosa; "Immigration dans l’océan indien occidental"; "L’Émigration Portugaise (XV-XX siècles) une constante structural et les réponses aux changements du monde" by Vitorino Magalhães Godinho; "East African Asians through a hundred years" by Michael Twaddle; "Emigration from Western Africa, 1807-1940" by W. G. Clarence-Smith; "British immigration into south Asia in the Nineteenth century" by P. J. Marshall; "Report on Irish emigration" by William J. Smyth; "German transatlantic emigration in 19th and 20th century: historical development, state of research in West Germany, desiderata and perspectives for future research" by Klaus J. Bade; "Immigration into Latin America, especially Argentina and Chile" by Magnus Mörner; "Immigration into the Caribbean; the introduction of Chinese and East Indian indentured Labourers between 1839 and 1917" by P. C. Emmer; "Icelandic emigration" by Helgi Skuli Kjartansson.

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