Chinese Migrants in the Italian Fashion Industry since the Early 20th Century

This encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey studies of the various regions and countries in Europe covering the last centuries. The second section presents information on about 220 individual groups of migrants from the Sephardic Jews emigration from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present-day migration of old-age pensioners to the holiday villages in the sun. The first resource of its kind, The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe is a comprehensive and authoritative research tool. A unique resource for scholars and researchers - there are no other publications with a comparable scope Argues that migration has been an integral part of the history of Europe, providing detailed analysis of immigration in a wide variety of European countries Reveals the variety of patterns of integration exhibited by various groups after migration