ENGLISH SUMMARIES
FRANZ MATHIS, "MOBILITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE ALPS. RESULTS AND TENDENCIES IN RESEARCH"
The situation in research into mobility in the history of the Alps may be summed up as follows: especially the seasonal, temporary and final migrations within and without the Alps have already been gone into, though not exhaustively Much less, however, is known about the concrete motives, the sequence and the effects of the migrations: in this matter there exist several extremely generalizing and, in part, therefore, too vague assertions, but along with them also already some more differentiated, micro-social and - in my view - future-indicating analyses. It is especially investigations of the latter type that we would need many more of, in order to perhaps once attain a comprehensive picture of migration and migrants in the Alps.
LAURENCE FONTAINE, "IMPLICIT PREMISES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALPINE MIGRATION IN THE MODERN PERIOD"
This contribution sets out to provide understanding of the most important concepts employed in migration research and revelation of the underlying theories that have strongly influenced the analysis of migration movements by means of implicit assumptions. Pull- and push-factors, the space dynamics of Fernand Braudel, the chain-theory, etc. - all theses models have certain features in common, quite apart from their dichotomous terminology. Among the more closely observed common features there especially belongs the circumstance that they atomize the social structure and produce economic models that are divorced from the political context and structures of social
