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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9/069120940903
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Social aspects - Europe; Immigrants - Europe - History; Assimilation (Sociology) - Europe; Identity (Psychology) - Europe
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Emigration and immigration History
• Classificazione: MS 3600
• Altri autori: KingSteven <1966-> WinterAnne, Ph. D.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s
• ISBN: 1-78533-218-X; 1-4619-5251-4; 1-78238-146-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790858603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in social history ; ; v. 23.