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TSEG Special Edition in honor of Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen out now
The TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History recently published a special issue on the theme ‘Pioneers in Migration History’. This special edition is dedicated to Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen, both retiring in the course of 2026.
Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen are both widely recognised as pioneers in migration history, not only because of the topics they addressed, but also because of how they fundamentally reoriented the field. Their work challenged static, nation-centered, and often ahistorical approaches by treating mobility as a normal, structural, and historically embedded feature of social and economic life. Long before migration became a dominant object of public and political controversy, they demonstrated that it is neither exceptional nor inherently disruptive, but constitutive of societies across time and space.
This special issue contains cotributions from Ad Knotter, Peter Scholten, Patrick Manning, Annemarie Steidl, Lex Heerma van Voss, Marijke van Faassen, Rik Hoekstra, Colin Pooley, Manon van der Heijden, Ariadne Schmidt, Eveline den Hollander, and Ymke Vreeburg. Their articles do not merely pay tribute, but also actively extend, test, and interrogate the analytical frameworks that Marlou and Leo helped to establish.
The TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is an open-access journal, whci can be read free of charge online. Hard copies are sent at request and after payment.
