Abstract. Migration flows are recurring phenomena in the world history, but their reasons changed with time. Due to the current migration crisis in Europe the study of migrations in the world context, have become popular. Today, it is covered by a vast range of foreign and Russian publications. World migration of the 20th century is analyzed in the context of urbanization, industrialization and decolonization, scholars determine interlinks between migration models and different socio-economical, demographical and political situation. In the contemporary scientific discourse, there are some prioritized aspects such as experience in accepting refugees, laws and regulations on migrant’s status, factors of mass migration flows, culture clashes and aftermaths of contacting migrants. The article analyses the latest trends in the research methodology of migration history. The author draws following conclusions. The current crisis turned the migration into one of the most disputable topics, so a global study of world migration history began. The understanding of migrations and crossed borders is changing, which makes it possible to deconstruct the migration process and consider it at the level of religious, linguistic and political adaptation separately. Coping with methodological nationalism, manifested in the analysis of migration as a process of entry and exit from one national state to another with subsequent assimilation, which implies the loss of one's own identity can be observed. ‘Euro’- and ‘Atlantocentrism’, characteristic of Western scientific discourse, are questioned, which gradually contributes to the assertion of the equivalence and typicality of mass migrations in different parts of the world. There has been recognition of a global phenomenon of transnationalism.
Keywords: mass migrations, migration history, migrants, methodology, transnationalism, borders, frontiers.
Author:
Pashkovskaia Tatiana ‑ Ph.D. in Philosophy, associate professor at the Department of World History, Institute for the Humanities, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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For citation
Pashkovskaia T. G. Migration History: Current Trends in Research Methodology, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2018, vol. 2, no 3, pp. 37‑42.