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Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 15001930s

International Studies in Social History
General Editor: Marcel van der Linden,
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Volume 1
Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe 19601993
Edited by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad

Volume 2
Class and Other Identities
Edited by Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcel van der Linden

Volume 3
Rebellious Families
Edited by Jan Kok

Volume 4
Experiencing Wages
Edited by Peter Scholliers and Leonard Schwarz

Volume 5
The Imaginary Revolution
Michael Seidman

Volume 6
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Kevin Murphy

Volume 7
Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire
Donald Quataert

Volume 8
Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction
Angel Smith

Volume 9
Sugarlandia Revisited
Edited by Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero and G. Roger Knight

Volume 10
Alternative Exchanges
Edited by Laurence Fontaine

Volume 11
A Social History of Spanish Labour
Edited by Jos Piqueras and Vicent Sanz-Rozaln

Volume 12
Learning on the Shop Floor
Edited by Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly

Volume 13
Unruly Masses
Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lutz Musner

Volume 14
Central European Crossroads
Pieter C. van Duin

Volume 15
Supervision and Authority in Industry
Edited by Patricia Van den Eeckhout

Volume 16
Forging Political Identity
Keith Mann

Volume 17
Gendered Money
Pernilla Jonsson and Silke Neunsinger

Volume 18
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Edited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Oostindie

Volume 19
Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements
Edited by Jan Willem Stutje

Volume 20
Maternalism Reconsidered
Edited by Marian van der Klein, Rebecca Jo Plant, Nichole Sanders and Lori R. Weintrob

Volume 21
Routes into the Abyss
Edited by Helmut Konrad and Wolfgang Maderthaner

Volume 22
Alienating Labour
Eszter Bartha

Volume 23
Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 15001930s
Edited by Steven King and Anne Winter

Volume 24
Bondage
Alessandro Stanziani

Volume 25
Bread from the Lions Mouth
Edited by Suraiya Faroqhi

Volume 26
The History of Labour Intermediation
Edited by Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner and Alexander Mejstrik

Volume 27
Rescuing the Vulnerable
Edited by Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael and Tamara Stazic-Wendt

Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 15001930s

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by

Steven King
and
Anne Winter

Published in 2013 by
Berghahn Books
www.berghahnbooks.com

2013, 2016 Steven King and Anne Winter
First paperback edition published in 2016

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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

pages cm. (International studies in social history ; 23)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-78238-145-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-78533-218-0 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-78238-146-4 (ebook)

1. EuropeEmigration and immigrationHistory. 2. Emigration and immigrationSocial aspectsEurope. 3. ImmigrantsEuropeHistory. 4. Assimilation (Sociology)Europe. 5. Identity (Psychology)Europe. I. King, Steven, 1966 II. Winter, Anne, Ph. D.

JV7590.M528 2013

305.9069120940903dc23

2013015472

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-1-78238-145-7 hardback
ISBN: 978-1-78533-218-0 paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78238-146-4 ebook

C ONTENTS

Joanna Innes, Steven King and Anne Winter

David Feldman

Jeremy Boulton

Steven King

Jane Humphries

Elizabeth Hurren

Anne-Lise Head-Knig

Marco H. D. van Leeuwen

Thijs Lambrecht

Anne Winter

Andreas Gestrich

Paul-Andr Rosental

I LLUSTRATIONS

Figures

Tables

I NTRODUCTION

S ETTLEMENT AND B ELONGING IN E UROPE , 15001930s

Structures, Negotiations and Experiences

Joanna Innes, Steven King and Anne Winter

The issues of who belonged to a community, how belonging was claimed and maintained and how it was lost were key concerns of everyday life for Europeans in the period from the 1500s (when life-cycle migration began to intensify) to the 1900s (when national welfare states began to create definitive entitlements usually unrelated to migratory or residence status).

Yet, to many contemporaries paupers, the labouring poor, officials, lawyers and politicians the answers to the dual questions who belonged and who had settlement were opaque. Normative definitions of settlement or citizenship enshrined in black letter law across Europe usually proved imperfect for our period, especially in light of increasing inter-state mobility from the nineteenth century. In practice, a combination of local law and bye-law, custom, the judgement of manorial and lordship courts, lineage, and the impact of short-term crises such as war and harvest failure coalesced in often unpredictable ways such that the status of

The problem of defining belonging was clearly a constant across the period covered by this volume, a reflection of large-scale personal mobility. Indeed, the English and Welsh Old Poor Law and its associated settlement laws, the archetype of a national social welfare system, was probably codified in the seventeenth century precisely because widespread migration for economic betterment meant that who belonged (and therefore who had rights to relief at times of economic stress) became an unanswerable question. Those out of their place, largely in urban areas which were in turn forced to provide relief for rural migrants, threatened the

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