Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s

Comparative Perspectives
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-145-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who “belonged,” and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources. What emerged was a sophisticated European settlement system, which on the one hand structured itself to limit the claims of the poor, and yet on the other was peculiarly sensitive to their demands and negotiations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Steven

Winter, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Demographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Figures

Introduction: Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1600-1950: Structures, Negotiations and Experiences

Joanna Innes, Steven King and Anne Winter

Chapter 1. Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth Century

David Feldman

Chapter 2. Double Deterrence: Settlement and Practice in London’s West End, 1725–1824

Jeremy Boulton

Chapter 3. Poor Relief, Settlement and Belonging in England 1780s to 1840s

Steven King

Chapter 4. Memories of Pauperism

Jane Humphries

Chapter 5. Belonging, Settlement and the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1870s–1900s

Elizabeth Hurren

Chapter 6. Citizens But Not Belonging: Migrants’ Difficulties in Obtaining Entitlement to Relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the Early Twentieth Century

Anne-Lise Head-König

Chapter 7. Overrun by Hungry Hordes? Migration and Poor Relief in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen

Chapter 8. Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 1650-1800

Thijs Lambrecht

Chapter 9. Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrants’ Access to Relief in Antwerp

Anne Winter

Chapter 10. Trajectories of German Settlement Regulations: The Prussian Rhine Province, 1815–1914

Andreas Gestrich

Afterward: National Citizenship and Migrants’ Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Europe

Paul-André Rosental

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Winter, Anne
Anne Winter is Lecturer and Francqui Research Professor in the history department of the Vrije Universiteit-Brussel. Her publications include Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860 (Pickering & Chatto, 2009) and Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (with Bert De Munck, Ashgate, 2012).

King, Steven
Steven King is Professor of Medical Humanities and Economic History at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on the history of demography, poverty, and welfare. Some of his most recent publications include articles in the Journal of Family History and Annales HSS.

Steven King is Professor of Medical Humanities and Economic History at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on the history of demography, poverty, and welfare. Some of his most recent publications include articles in the Journal of Family History and Annales HSS.