Migration Control in the North-atlantic World

Andreas Fahrmeir is currently in the History Department at the University of Cologne.

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Notes on Contributors



Introduction

Andreas Fahrmeir, Olivier Faron and Patrick Weil



PART I: BEYOND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: NEW CONCEPTS OF CITIZENSHIP: NEW METHODS OF CONTROL



Chapter 1. The Eighteenth-Century Citizenship Revolution in France

Peter Sahlins



Chapter 2. ‘African Citizens’: Slavery, Freedom and Migration During the French Revolution

Laurent Dubois



Chapter 3. Paris and its Foreigners in the Late Eighteenth Century

Olivier Faron and Cyril Grange



Chapter 4. British Nationality Policy as a Counter-Revolutionary Strategy During the Napoleonic Wars: The Emergence of Modern Naturalization Regulations

Margrit Schulte Beerbühl



PART II: AN AGE OF EXPERIMENTATION: CONTROLLING MOVEMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY



Chapter 5. Passports and the Development of Immigration Controls in the North Atlantic World During the Long Nineteenth Century

John Torpey



Chapter 6. ‘Beggars appear everywhere!’: Changing Approaches to Migration Control in Mid- Nineteenth Century Munich

K. M. N. Carpenter



Chapter 7. Qualitative Migration Controls in the Antebellum United States

Gerald L. Neuman



Chapter 8. The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century West European Expulsion Policy, 1880-1914

Frank Caestecker



Chapter 9. Foreigners and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Austria: Juridical Concepts and Legal Rights in the Light of the Development of Citizenship

Birgitta Bader-Zaar



Chapter 10. Empowerment and Control: Conflicting Central and Regional Interests in Migration Within the Habsburg Monarchy

Andrea Komlosy



Chapter 11. Was the Nineteenth Century a Golden Age for Immigrants? The Changing Articulation of National, Local and Voluntary Controls

David Feldman



Chapter 12. Revolutionaries into Beggars: Alien Policies in the Netherlands 1814-1914

Leo Lucassen



PART III: NEW DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION CONTROL: COMMERCIAL INTERESTS, UNIONS AND POLITICIANS



Chapter 13. The Archaeology of ‘Remote Control’

Aristide R. Zolberg



Chapter 14. Hamburg and the Transit of East European Emigrants

Katja Wüstenbecker



Chapter 15. Labour Unions and the Nationalisation of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1880-1924

Catherine Collomp



Chapter 16. Between Altruism and Self-Interest: Immigration Restriction and the Emergence of American-Jewish

Politics in the United States

Michael Berkowitz



Chapter 17. Races at the Gate. Racial Distinctions in Immigration Policy: A Comparison between France and the

United States

Patrick Weil



PART IV: PROVISIONAL CONCLUSIONS



Chapter 18. Law and Practice: Problems in Researching the History of Migration Controls

Andreas Fahrmeir



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