Christina Reimann - Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940

This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds, bacteria, and viruses; technological and scientific knowledge; and fashions all arrived in, and moved through, these microcosms of the global. Migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built environment, the particular sociocultural milieu, and contemporary representations of these spaces. Port cities, in turn, conditioned the lives of these mobile people, be they seafarers, traders, passers-through, or people in search of a new home. By focusing on migrantstheir actions and how they were acted uponthe authors seek to capture the contradictions and complexities that characterized port cities: mobility and immobility, acceptance and rejection, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, diversity and homogeneity, segregation and interaction.

The book offers a wide geographical perspective, covering port cities on three continents. Its chapters deal with agency in a widened sense, considering the activities of individuals and collectives as well as the decisive impact of sailing and steamboats, trains, the built environment, goods or microbes in shaping urban-maritime spaces.

Christina Reimann is a researcher at Stockholm University and at Sdertrn University.

Martin hman is a researcher at Gothenburg University.

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Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 15701940

Edited by Christina Reimann and Martin hman

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Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 15701940

Edited by
Christina Reimann
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Names: Reimann, Christina, 1983 editor. | hman, Martin, 1974 editor.

Title: Migrants and the making of the urban-maritime world : agency and mobility in port cities, c. 15701940 / edited by Christina Reimann and Martin hman.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2021. |

Series: Routledge advances in urban history ; 8 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020026049 (print) | LCCN 2020026050 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367543617 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003088950 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000173512 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000173529 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000173536 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Port citiesHistory. | Port citiesEconomic aspects. | Urban economicsHistory. | ImmigrantsHistory. | ImmigrantsEconomic conditions. | Emigration and immigrationEconomic aspects. | Emigration and immigrationHistory.

Classification: LCC HE551 .M637 2021 (print) | LCC HE551 (ebook) | DDC 305.9/0691091732dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026049

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026050

ISBN: 978-0-367-54361-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-08895-0 (ebk)

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CHRISTINA REIMANN AND MARTIN HMAN

PART I
Migrants and the Construction of Port City Spaces

BIRGIT TREMML-WERNER

FATMA TANI AND CAROLA HEIN

MARTIN HMAN

BRAD BEAVEN

ANDREA WIEGESHOFF

PART II
Urban-Maritime Space and Migrant Experiences

SARI NAUMAN

CLINE REGNARD

KRISTOF LOOCKX

HILDE GREEFS AND ANNE WINTER

SARAH PANTER

JORDI IBARZ

JOSEPH BEN PRESTEL

Christina Reimann and Martin hman

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes for long-distance transmission and exchange. Commodities and news dispatches; people, animals, seeds, bacteria, and viruses; technological and scientific knowledge; as well as new ideas, fashions, and other cultural trends all moved through and transformed these microcosms of the global. Places like Manila, New York City, Izmir, Antwerp, and Barcelona functioned as focal points and catalysts for larger colonial projects, wars, mercantile ventures, and (mass) migrations. This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban- maritime world in terms of the built environment, the particular sociocultural milieu, and contemporary representations of these spaces. And port cities formed and conditioned the lives of these mobile people, be they seafarers, traders, passers-through, or people in search of a new home. The volumes contributions emphasize the agency of migrants when establishing themselves in or navigating through port cities, while also recognizing that waterfront spaces were no mere scenery but could in fact expand or limit migrants opportunities.

The contributions span from settlers in

Port cities relationship to migration was particularly close and long-lasting.foreign sailors, and entrepreneurs looking for business opportunities. Some were transients, en route elsewhere, while others were in search of a permanent home.