ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the various forms of control the city council of Frankfurt employed towards migrants, mostly based on the study of the city's police ordinances. The period under investigation shows that the authorities increasingly tried to get a grip on the constant flow of migrants to and in the city. Scholarship has argued that municipal citizenship not only functioned as an exclusionary mechanism towards migrants but also played an important role in inclusionary policies. In order to regulate migrants' stay in the city itself, Frankfurt's authorities depended on various institutions. Having only a small rural hinterland Frankfurt's main efforts for controlling migration were aimed at the urban experience, in contrast to larger territories that were faced with controlling a large rural hinterland as well. To keep the mobile poor from becoming a burden to the city's relief system, Frankfurt relied on retroactive means of control in addition to preventive measures.
