This document provides a bibliography of sources related to populations and migration. It includes over 50 references to books, articles, and reports covering topics like the economic reasons behind marriage and family, methodologies for analyzing internal migration data, the role of geography in genocide, extreme weather events and mortality, climate change and migration, and first-hand accounts of genocide and exile. Many of the sources take comparative approaches to studying issues like genocide, cities, disease, and theories of international migration.

1. Populations Bibliography with Notes
Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
This book looks at what the Holocaust tells us about modern life and how modernity
made the holocaust possible.
Becker, Gary S. A treatise on the family / Gary S. Becker. n.p.: Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1991. Explores in depth the economic reasons behind marriage and
children. Relates modern economic changes to the changes seen in marriage with the
focus on welfare programs and women in the work force.
Bell, M. et al. “Cross-National Comparison of Internal Migration: Issues and Measures”
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol 165, No 3 (2002), 435-464.
Methodologies for analysis of internal migration data.
Betts, Alexander Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Chandler, Tertius. Four thousand years of urban growth : an historical census / Tertius
Chandler. n.p.: Lewiston, N.Y., U.S.A. : St. David's University Press, 1987. This book is
a collection of data which shows the world’s largest cities from 2250 BC to present.
Maps and data sheets are included.
Cigar, Norman. Genocide in Bosnia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,
1995.
Coe, Cati et al, eds. Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth and Migration in Global
Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. Useful chapter on children’s
agency in family migration decision-making.
Cooper, Allan D. The Geography of Genocide. New York: University Press of America,
Inc., 2009. This book looks at the role geography plays in genocide, concluding that
genocides largely originate in territorial interiors, and uses 60 historical genocides as case
studies.
Curtin, Philip D. Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the
Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Study of French and
English military non-combat mortality (relocation costs) while serving in tropical
settlements.
Deschenes, Olivier and Morettie, Enrico “Extreme Weather Events, Mortality, and
Migration” The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Nov 2009) 659-681.
Statistical analysis of the effect of extreme weather on mortality in the USA.

2. Frey, William H. “Immigration and Internal Migration ‘Flight’: A California Case Study”
Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 4 (March 1995), 353-375. Comparison of
inflows and outflows of migrants in California.
Getty, J. Arch. The Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party
Reconsidered, 1933-1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. This book
looks at how the Great Purges originated and argues they were very severe, and Stalin
orchestrated the purges from above--the totalitarian thesis. He also examines the severity
of collectivization under Stalin
Godhagen, Danniel Jonah. Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the
Holocaust London, 1996. This book looks at how ordinary Germans came to be part of
Hitler’s genocidal regime, arguing that most Germans were not aware of the killing and
how extensive it was, and that the killers were reluctant in their killing, doing so in a
depersonalized way.
Goff, Leo et al. “Climate-Induced Migration from Northern Africa to Europe: Security
Challenges and Opportunities” Brown Journal of World Affairs Vol 18, Issue 2
(Spring/Summer 2012), 195-213.
Graslund, Bo and Price, Neil. “Twilight of the gods? The ‘dust veil event’ of AD 536 in
critical perspective” Antiquity, Vol 86 (2012), 428-443. Analysis of the climate shock
described in Tvauri.
Hareven, Tamara K. "The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change."
The American Historical Review, 1991., 95. This article challenges traditional beliefs
about the social breakdown associated with the Industrial Revolution. Argues that
kinship ties were strengthened through immigration to cities and networks remained
intact at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Kiernan, Ben. The Pol Pot Regime. Internet. This book looks at the Pol Pot regime and is
a comprehensive study of how the Cambodian genocide originated and its history.
Knott, Kim and McLaughlin, Sean, eds. Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities.
London: Zed Books, 2010. Excellent compilation of short readings organized by theme:
concepts, intersections and case studies.
Kuper, Leo. Genocide: Its Political Use in the 20th Century. New Haven, 1981. This
book looks at how genocide became politicized, including the idea of the uniqueness of
the Holocaust and denial.
Levene, Mark. “Why Is the Twentieth Century the Century of Genocide?” Journal of
World History 11, no. 2 (Fall, 2000), 305-336. This article attempts to answer whether
genocide was a return to barbarism or something modern.

3. McNeill, William H. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976.
How territorial expansion was facilitated when disease-resistant people moved into areas
where the inhabitants did not have disease-resistance.
Massey, Douglas S. et al. “Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal”
Population and Development Review, Vol 19, No. 3 (Sept 1993), 431-466. Summary of
economic theories regarding international migration.
Mumford, Lewis. The culture of cities [by] Lewis Mumford. n.p.: New York, Harcourt,
Brace and company, 1938. This book looks at how cities changed leading up to the
Industrial Revolution and challenges traditional ideas about the cities during the Middle
Ages.
Mumford, Lewis. The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. n.p.: New
York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961. This book explores the origins of cities in
Ancient Times along with his original work in The culture of cities.
Nugent, Walter. Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1992. Voluntary migration in the Atlantic Region; looks at sending and
receiving countries but does not address coerced migration.
Odian, Yervant. Accursed Years: My Exile and Return from Der Zor, 1914–1919.
Translated by Ara Stepan Melkonian. London: Gomidas Press, 2009 [1919]. A first-hand
account of the Prunier, Gerard. The Rwanda Crisis, History of a Genocide 1959-1994.
London, 1995. Prunier argues that the Rwandan genocide was organized and planned
from above, and that much of the identity involved in the genocide was constructed by
Westerners. It also provides a general history of Rwanda.
Quale, G. Robina. A history of marriage systems / G. Robina Quale. n.p.: New York :
Greenwood Press, 1988. This book examines how marriage developed from
hunter/gatherer societies to agricultural societies to industrial societies. Focuses on
economic reasons behind marriage.
Ratner, Steven R. “Can We Compare Evils? The Enduring Debate on Genocide and
Crimes Against Humanity.” Washington University Global Studies Law Review 6, no.
583 (2007): 583-590. This book looks at the distinction in international law between
genocide and crimes against humanity, and whether this distinction is useful and
meaningful.
Rosenbaum, Alan, ed. Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide.
Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 2009. This edited volume looks at whether the Holocaust
was unique, by comparing it with other genocides and rethinking the concept of
uniqueness generally.

4. Rubin, Rachel and Melnick, Jeffrey. Immigration and American Popular Culture. New
York: New York University Press, 2007. Interesting studies of what happens once
immigrants arrive in the USA.
Rummel, R.J. Death by Government. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
Rummel looks at the phenomenon he terms democide, or death by government, and
whether democracies are less prone to genocide. He looks at every instance of democide
in the twenty first century through 1987.
Sherman, Irwin W. Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World. Washington: ASM Press,
2007. Chapters on bubonic plague and yellow fever most relevant.
Thurston, Robert. Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia. This book argues that the Great
Terror was largely confined to the years of 1937-38 and not as severe as previous
historians had asserted; indeed, it was not a terror at all to Thurston.
Tvauri, Andres. “The Impact of the Climate Catastrophe of 536-537A.D. in Estonia and
Neighbouring Areas” Estonian Journal of Archaeology, Vol 18, No. 1 (2014), 30-56.
Multidisciplinary case study of climate shock on population.
Uzonyi, Gary. “Unpacking the effects of genocide and politicide on forced migration.”
Conflict Management and Peace Science 31, no. 3 (2014): 225-243. This article argues
that politicide has a much greater effect in producing dislocated populations that
genocide.
Watenpaugh, Keith David. “‘Are There Any Children for Sale?’: Genocide and the
Transfer of Armenian Children (1915–1922).” Journal of Human Rights 12 (2013): 283-
295. This article looks at the extent to which parents sold children and had their children
stolen and sold during the Armenian genocide, and how this was cultural genocide.
Weitz, Eric. A Century of Genocide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. This
book looks at four genocides--the Holocaust, Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia, and Cambodia,
and provides a comparative perspective on the commonalities of genocide
White, Gregory. Climate Change and Migration. New York: Oxford University Press,
2011. Presents multiple causes of environmental refugees and a matrix of cause and
volition; some case studies; comprehensive bibliography.