ABSTRACT
This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Whereas research on migration regulation typically looks at local policies for the early modern period and at state policies for the contemporary period, this book avoids the stalemate of modernity narratives by exploring a long-term genealogy of migration regulation in which cities played a pivotal role. The case studies range from early modern Venice, Stockholm and Constantinople, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century port towns and capital cities such as London and Vienna.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|24 pages
Introduction
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
part II|126 pages
Early Modern Period
chapter 3|21 pages
Ordering Identification
chapter 4|24 pages
Documents and Local Networks
chapter 5|21 pages
From Community Registers to Domestic Passports
part III|136 pages
Modern Period
chapter 7|22 pages
Receiving, Selecting, and Rejecting Foreign Migrants and Refugees in Port Cities
chapter 10|26 pages
The Practice of Control and the Illusion of Evidence
chapter 11|22 pages
Producing the ‘Undocumented Migrant’
chapter 12|22 pages
Roma Under Surveillance in Urban Context
part IV|24 pages
Conclusion