Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe
By: edited by David de Boer and Geert H. Janssen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350307711; 9781350307681; 9781350307698; 9781350307704; 9781350307728
Subjects: Political science; Refugees; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; European history; History
Description: Refugees have existed since ancient times but it was in the early modern era that they first became a distinct social and political category. This open access book maps the early modern 'invention of the refugee' and in the process uncovers their impact on local, regional, and transnational politics.   With case studies ranging from Scandinavia to the Maghreb, Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe traces how refugees transformed Europe. Topics explored include: the development of refugees as a political group in early modern societies; the role of displaced minorities in forging humanitarian networks; and the impact of refugees on migration management and imperialism. Most notably, this collection of essays moves beyond discussions of expulsion and flight to shine a spotlight on how states responded critically and constitutionally to refugees - as a means of galvanizing social groups, reinforcing identities, promoting activities, and expanding bureaucratic reach. The result is a sophisticated comparative study of migration, identity, power and politics which will be vital reading to all scholars of early modern Europe.   The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction, David de Boer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Geert H. Janssen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Part I. The Invention of the Refugee 1. Renaissance Refugees: Religious Migrations in Early Modern Italy, Diego Pirillo (University of California - Berkeley, USA) 2. Inventing Irish Identity in Exile, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (University College Dublin, Ireland) 3. The Construction of Transnational Religious Networks: Netherlandish Reformed Protestants in Diaspora, 1550-1600, Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University, USA) 4. (Re)Presentations of Flight: Baltic Refugees in Sweden, 1700-1721, Sari Naumann (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part II. Humanitarianism and Diplomacy 5. Mobility and Charity in Early Modern Societies: A Comparative Approach, Alexander Schunka (Free University Berlin, Germany) 6. In Face of Xenophobia: Polish Jewish Refugees and their Survival Strategies, Adam Teller (Brown University, USA) 7. Sephardic Jews and Moroccan Diplomats: The Pallache Family in the Hague, Mercedes García-Arenal (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) and Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 8. Mobilizing Shame: International Newspapers and Humanitarian Culture in Britain and Europe, 1715-1745, Catherine Arnold (University of Memphis, USA) Part III. Migration Management and Imperialism 9. Plague, War, and the Politics of Refuge in Early Modern Danzig, Katherine Hill (Birkbeck University of London, UK) 10. Engineering the Refuge: The Huguenots of Switzerland, their English Patrons, and the Creation of a Global Diaspora, 1685-1700, Owen Stanwood (Boston College, USA) 11. The Counter-Revolutionary Origins of Exile Politics, c. 1800, Jan C. Jansen (Tübingen University, Germany) Afterword: Refugees and the Making of Modern Politics, Fabian Klose (University of Cologne, Germany) Bibliography Index