Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s

Steven King is Professor of Medical Humanities and Economic History at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on the history of demography, poverty, and welfare. Some of his most recent publications include articles in the Journal of Family History and Annales HSS.

• List of TablesList of FiguresIntroduction: Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1600-1950: Structures, Negotiations and ExperiencesJoanna Innes, Steven King and Anne WinterChapter 1. Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth CenturyDavid FeldmanChapter 2. Double Deterrence: Settlement and Practice in London’s West End, 1725–1824Jeremy BoultonChapter 3. Poor Relief, Settlement and Belonging in England 1780s to 1840sSteven KingChapter 4. Memories of PauperismJane HumphriesChapter 5. Belonging, Settlement and the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1870s–1900sElizabeth HurrenChapter 6. Citizens But Not Belonging: Migrants’ Difficulties in Obtaining Entitlement to Relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the Early Twentieth CenturyAnne-Lise Head-KönigChapter 7. Overrun by Hungry Hordes? Migration and Poor Relief in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Twentieth CenturiesMarco H.D. van LeeuwenChapter 8. Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 1650-1800Thijs LambrechtChapter 9. Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrants’ Access to Relief in AntwerpAnne WinterChapter 10. Trajectories of German Settlement Regulations: The Prussian Rhine Province, 1815–1914Andreas GestrichAfterward: National Citizenship and Migrants’ Social Rights in Twentieth-Century EuropePaul-André RosentalNotes on ContributorsBibliography

“…a valuable and engaging contribution to historical debates about labor, poverty, relief, and belonging…[The papers] are written by leaders in their fields…and pulled together [by the editors] in an elegant and convincing treatment of the case for such a geographical spread.”  ·  Alannah Tomkins, University of Keele“…a very valuable collection of articles on an important subject of social history in the long period running from the end of the Middle Ages to the 20th century…[Of particular interest] for an Anglo-American readership is the innovative comparative perspective that must be seen as a substantial contribution to the ongoing international research on poverty, poor relief and migration in Europe… All articles are of good, very good or outstanding academic quality.”  ·  Lutz Raphael, Trier University