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Refugees have existed since ancient times, but it was in the early modern era that they were first recognized as a social category. This open access book maps the invention of the refugee and uncovers their impact on local, regional, and transnational politics.
With case studies ranging from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Basin, Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe traces how refugees transformed the European continent. Topics explored include: the discursive strategies of exiles to distinguish themselves from other migrants; the role of displaced people in forging humanitarian networks; and the agency of religious minorities in migration management and imperialism. Moving beyond common images of refugees as passive victims of repression, this collection of essays shines a spotlight on the political interplay between displaced people, persecuting authorities, transnational support groups, and receiving societies - drawing a fuller picture of the many decision-making processes that determined the lives of newcomers and their hosts. The result is a sophisticated comparative study of mobility, identity, power, and politics, which will be vital reading to all scholars of migration history.
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).
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe David de Boer and Geert H. Janssen 1
Part I Refugees and Belonging
1 Arguing about Refugeedom: Religious Mobility in Jacobean London and Counter-Reformation Rome, Diego Pirillo (University of California - Berkeley, USA)
2 Transnational Refugee Networks and the Politics of the early Dutch Republic, 1568-1590, Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University, USA)
3 Inventing Irish Identity in Exile, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (University College Dublin, Ireland)
4 The Refugee Discourse of the Moriscos: Petitioning and Diplomacy after the Expulsion Decree of 1609, Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
5 Outsiders Within: Internally Displaced Persons in Sweden, 1700-1721, Sari Nauman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Part II Humanitarianism
6 Refugees, Poor Relief and the Birth of Philanthropy in Protestant Europe, Alexander Schunka (Free University Berlin, Germany)
7 In face of Xenophobia: Polish-Lithuanian Jewish Refugees and their Survival Strategies in the 1650s, Adam Teller (Brown University, USA)
8 The Newspapers of Holland make a Great Noise: 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 Prussia, Kat Hill (Birkbeck University of London, UK)
10 Engineering the Refuge: Switzerland, England and the Huguenots, 1685-1700, Owen Stanwood (Boston College, USA)
11 Exile between Revolution and Counter-revolution, c. 1800, Jan C. Jansen (Tübingen University, Germany)
Afterword: Refugee Politics in Longue-Durée Perspectives, Fabian Klose (University of Cologne, Germany)
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