"Johann Oltmer offers a comprehensive overview of the background, forms, and consequences of migration in Germany from the late 19th century to the present time, including a perspective on migration research, a field that has accelerated substantially since the 1990s. An extensive bibliography,...

Tenants wanted: the promotion of immigration to the New World, 1607-1776 -- Antebellum immigration promotion by states, 1845-1860 -- Corporate immigration promotion and labor recruitment in the nineteenth century -- Selling the promised land: religious and philanthropic promotion -- Immigration...