East-Central European Migrations and Mobilities in the Modern Age

Required readings:

• Drew Keeling, “The Transportation Revolution and Transatlantic Migration, 1850- 1914,” Research in Economic History 19 (1999): 39-74.

Optional readings:

• Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller, “Theories of Migration,” in The Age of Migration. 6. ed. (New York, London: Guilford, 2020), 248– 270.

Required readings:

• “Osinski Series,” in William Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918).

Optional readings:

• Tobias Brinkmann, “Strangers in the City: Transmigration from Eastern Europe and its Impact on Berlin and Hamburg 1880–1914,” Journal of Migration History, 2(2) (2016): 223-246.
• Leslie Page Moch, “Domestic Service, Migration, and Ethnic Stereotyping.” Journal of Migration History, 1(1) (2015): 32–53.

Required readings:

• The Diary of Dr. George Price. Zhvanko, Liubov, and Oleksiy Nestulya. “Ukrainian Assistance to Refugees during the First World War.” in Peter Gatrell, Liubov Zhvanko eds. Europe on the Move: Refugees in the Era of the Great War (Manchester University Press, 2017), 108–28.

Optional readings:

• Martina Hermann, “‘Cities of Barracks’: Refugees in the Austrian Part of the Habsburg Empire during the First World War.” in Peter Gatrell, Liubov Zhvanko eds. Europe on
  the Move: Refugees in the Era of the Great War (Manchester University Press, 2017), 129–55.
• Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War 1 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 115-127.

Required reading:

• Daniel E. Bender, “One. Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy,” in Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and
  Languages of Labor (Rutgers University Press, 2004), 23-35.
• Yiddish song “In a fektori lebn a mashin” 
• Moritz Rosenfeld’s poems in Ivan Franko’s translation

Optional reading:

• Jay M. Pilzer, “The Jews and the Great “Sweated Labor” Debate: 1888-1892.” Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3/4 (Summer-Autumn, 1979): 257-274.
• Andrzej Brożek, “Polish Immigrant Workers in Europe and the Labor Movement.” Polish American Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring, 1989): 61-73.

Required reading:

• Anne E. Gorsuch, “There’s No Place Like Home”: Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism,” Slavic Review, Vol. 62, No. 4, Tourism and Travel in Russia and the Soviet Union
  (Winter, 2003): 760-785.
• Guidebook Polish Lviv 1930
• Guidebook Soviet Lviv 1974

Optional reading:

• Christian Noack, “Coping with the Tourist: Planned and “Wild” Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast,” in Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (Cornell University Press, 2006): 281-303.
• Jagoda Wierzejska, “A Domestic Space: The Central and Eastern Carpathians in the Polish Tourist and Local Lore Discourse,1918 – 1939” PFLIT, issue 9(12), part 1 (2019): 33–62.

Required reading:

• Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov, “‘Letter to Stalin’: Roma Activism vs. Gypsy Nomadism in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe before WWII,” Social
  Inclusion, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2020): 265–276.
• Цыганская дорога. Воспоминания Ивана Корсуна.

Optional reading:

• Volha Bartash, “The sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union after 1956: A case study from the former Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic,” Romani Studies, Volume
  25, Issue 1: 23–51.
• Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska, “One Culture or Multiple Cultures? The Diversity of Roma People in Poland,” in Colloquia Humanistica 3 (2014): 77–89.

Required readings:

• Howard Markel, Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 15–40.

Optional readings:

• Andrew Robarts, Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region: Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Bloomsbury, 2016), 109–137.
• Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling. Medicalising borders. Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800 (Manchester University Press, 2021), 129- 154.

• Ellis Island Immigration station
• Tenement