Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s

339 Pages·2019·3.532 MB·English

by  Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter

Routledge Advances in Urban History
Series Editors: Bert De Munck (Centre for Urban History, University
of Antwerp), and Simon Gunn (Centre for Urban History, University
of Leicester)
This series showcases original and exciting new work in urban history.
It publishes books that challenge existing assumptions about the history
of cities, apply new theoretical frames to the urban past, and open up
new avenues of historical enquiry. The scope of the series is global, and
it covers all time periods from the ancient to the modern worlds.
1 Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present
Edited by Ilja Van Damme, Bert De Munck, and Andrew Miles
2 Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification
in European Cities
Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s
Edited by Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter
Routledge Advances in Urban History
Series Editors: Bert De Munck (Centre for Urban History, University
of Antwerp), and Simon Gunn (Centre for Urban History, University
of Leicester)
This series showcases original and exciting new work in urban history.
It publishes books that challenge existing assumptions about the history
of cities, apply new theoretical frames to the urban past, and open up
new avenues of historical enquiry. The scope of the series is global, and
it covers all time periods from the ancient to the modern worlds.
1 Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present
Edited by Ilja Van Damme, Bert De Munck, and Andrew Miles
2 Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification
in European Cities
Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s
Edited by Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter
Migration Policies and
Materialities of Identification
in European Cities
Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s
Edited by
Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter
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Names: Greefs, Hilde, editor. | Winter, Anne (Professor
of history), editor.
Title: Migration policies and materialities of identification in
European cities : papers and gates, 1500–1930s / edited by
Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge
advances in urban history ; 2 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018026825 (print) | LCCN 2018031930 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Europe—Emigration and immigration—
History—Case studies. | Europe—Emigration and
immigration—Government policy—Case studies. | Emigration
and immigration law—Europe—History—Case studies. |
Cities and towns—Europe—History—Case studies. | Local
government—Europe—History—Case studies.
Classification: LCC JV7590 (ebook) | LCC JV7590 .M48645
2019 (print) | DDC 325.4—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018026825
ISBN: 978-1-138-35178-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-43506-5 (ebk)
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Preface xi
BERT DE MUNCk AND SIMON GUNN
Acknowledgments xvii
PARt I
Introduction 1
Introduction: Migration Policies and Materialities
of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates,
1500–1930s 3
HILDE GREEFS AND ANNE WINTER
PARt II
Early Modern Period 25
1 Controlling and Documenting Migration via Urban
‘Spaces of Arrival’ in Early Modern Venice 27
ROSA SALzBERG
2 Controlling Strangers: Identifying Migrants in Early
Modern Frankfurt am Main 46
JEANNETTE kAMP
3 Ordering Identification: Migrants, Material Culture,
and Social Bonds in Stockholm, 1650–1720 66
kARIN SENNEFELT
vi Contents
4 Documents and Local Networks: Monitoring Migrants
and Workers in Eighteenth-Century turin 87
BEATRICE zUCCA MICHELETTO
5 From Community Registers to Domestic Passports:
the Migration Regime in Ottoman Istanbul 111
SINAN DINçER
6 Documents, Migration, and Governance in Imperial
Russian towns 132
ALISON k. SMITH
PARt III
Modern Period 151
7 Receiving, Selecting, and Rejecting Foreign Migrants and
Refugees in Port Cities: A Comparison of Bordeaux and
Marseille During the Early Nineteenth Century 153
DELPHINE DIAz
8 the Use of travel and Identity Documents in Antwerp
During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 175
ELLEN DEBACkERE
9 Mapping Identification and Municipal Policy towards
Migration in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and Budapest 193
MARkIAN PROkOPOVYCH
10 the Practice of Control and the Illusion of Evidence:
Passports and Personal Identification in Cities of
Habsburg Austria 217
PETER BECkER
11 Producing the ‘Undocumented Migrant’:
Registration and Deportation in Early
twentieth Century London and Berlin 243
CHRISTIANE REINECkE
Contents vii
12 Roma Under Surveillance in Urban Context:
Control, Identification, and Expulsion in Paris,
Lyon, and Marseille, 1900s–1930s 265
ILSEN ABOUT
PARt IV
Conclusion 287
Conclusion: Cities and States: Papers and Walls 289
ANDREAS FAHRMEIR
List of Contributors 307
Index 311

List of Figures and tables
Figures
4.1 and 4.2 Fedi of two parish priests attesting
the economic destitution and the honest life of
their parishioners 104
6.1 Form for revizskie skazki, 1761 (3rd) census 135
6.2 Example of a decree of ascription. Words in italics
represent filled-in blanks on the printed form 139
7.1 Jean de Silva’s individual refugee certificate in 1854 162
7.2 Map of Marseille in 1851 168
11.1 Registration Card of Rosa Selner in 1924 246
tables
8.1 Documents used by foreigners arriving in Antwerp in
1850 or 1880 181
8.2 Documents used by foreigners arriving in Antwerp in
1850 according to their last residence abroad 184
8.3 Documents used by foreigners arriving in Antwerp in
1880 according to their last residence abroad 184
8.4 Documents and gender of foreigners arriving in
Antwerp in 1850 and 1880 185
8.5 Occupational backgrounds and documents of
foreigners arriving in Antwerp in 1850 186
8.6 Occupational backgrounds and documents of
foreigners arriving in Antwerp in 1880 187