Contrary to earlier views of preindustrial Europe as an essentially
sedentary society, research over the past decades has amply
demonstrated that migration was a pervasive characteristic of early
modern Europe. In this volume, the theme of urban migration is
explored through a series of historical contexts, journeying from
sixteenth-century Antwerp, Ulm, Lille and Valenciennes, through
seventeenth-century Berlin, Milan and Rome, to eighteenth-century
Strasbourg, Trieste, Paris and London. Each chapter demonstrates
how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups of migrants
was a core feature of everyday urban life, which left important
marks on the demographic, economic, social, political, and cultural
characteristics of individual cities. The collection focuses on the
interventions by urban authorities and institutions in a
wide-ranging set of domains, as they sought to stimulate, channel
and control the newcomers' movements and activities within the
cities and across the cities' borders. While striving for a broad
geographical and chronological coverage in a comparative
perspective, the volume aims to enhance our insight into the
different factors that shaped urban migration policies in different
European settings west of the Elbe. By laying bare the complex
interactions of actors, interests, conflicts, and negotiations
involved in the regulation of migration, the case studies shed
light on the interrelations between burghership, guilds, relief
arrangements, and police in the incorporation of newcomers and in
shaping the shifting boundaries between wanted and unwanted
migrants. By relating to a common analytical framework, presented
in the introductory chapter, they engage in a comparative
discussion that allows for the formulation of general insights and
the identification of long term transformations that transcend the
time and place specificities of the case studies in question. The
introduction and final chapters connect insights derived from the
individual case-study chapters to present wide ranging conclusions
that resonate with both historical and present-day debates on
migration.
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