The state and population mobility in the Great Lakes - What is different about post-colonial migrations?

This paper gives a broad overview over histories of migration. This is in the sense of broader societal discourses over real fictive migrations and in the sense of more academic accounts of actual migration phenomena.

The hypothesis is that migration is linked to the state in a variety of ways: As the nature of the state has changed over various periods of history, so have forms of migration. Both are important sources of identity; the state may be a causal factor of migration while the nature of the state often shapes forms of migration and the status that migrants acquire in the countries of destination. As the nature of the state has changed over various periods of history, so have forms of migration.