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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809507403321

Titolo

Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s : comparative perspectives / / edited by Steven King and Anne Winter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-78533-218-X

1-4619-5251-4

1-78238-146-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

International studies in social history ; ; 23

Classificazione

MS 3600

Altri autori (Persone)

KingSteven <1966->

WinterAnne, Ph. D.

Disciplina

305.9/069120940903

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects - Europe

Immigrants - Europe - History

Assimilation (Sociology) - Europe

Identity (Psychology) - Europe

Europe Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Introduction - Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s: Structures, Negotiations and Experiences; Chapter One - Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter Two - Double Deterrence: Settlement and Practice in London's West End, 1725-1824; Chapter Three - Poor Relief, Settlement and Belonging in England, 1780s to 1840s; Chapter Four - Memories of Pauperism; Chapter Five - Belonging, Settlement and the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1870s-1900s

Chapter Six - Citizens But Not Belonging: Migrants' Difficulties in Obtaining Entitlement to Relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter Seven - Overrun by Hungry Hordes? Migration and Poor Relief in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries; Chapter Eight - Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 1650-1800; Chapter Nine - Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrant's Access to Relief in Antwerp



Chapter Ten - Trajectories of German Settlement Regulations: The Prussian Rhine Province, 1815-1914Afterword - National Citizenship and Migrants' Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Europe; Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 we