SPECIAL ISSUE: Stratégies et procédures d’identification des étrangers (mondes hispaniques-Méditerranée, xviie-xixe siècles) (ed. Arnaud BARTOLOMEI & Sylain LLORET) (Mélanges de la Casa de Vélazquez LI (2021), nr. 1)

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Arnaud Bartolomei et Sylvain Lloret Présentation

Óscar Recio Morales Gobernar la alteridad El «Protector de Extranjeros» en España (siglos xvi-xviii)

Abstract:

The legal figure of the protector has its roots in the Roman Empire; it was taken up by the Christianity associated with the concept of charity and recovered in modern Europe in its triple aspect of guardian, mediator and defender. In the Spanish administration, the figure of the protector of the indians is the best known, thanks to the numerous studies on the legal status of the indigenous. The «Protector of Foreigners», on the other hand, is virtually unknown. This contribution examines its evolution and the practice of protection. It argues that the «Protector of Foreigners» could have contributed to the management of an otherness that moved, in a short time frame, from a reduced peninsular space to a global dimension. The practice of protection, however, was channelled by such a complex, technical list of subsidies, and such a broad set of non-institutionalised social mechanisms, that there was, in fact, an abundance of figures acting as protectors.

Jörg Ulbert Identifier pour contrôler La monarchie française et l’identification de ses ressortissants expatriés (xviie-xviiie siècle, Empire ottoman – Espagne)

Abstract:

Mercantilism views the population as wealth, as a resource that must be protected. To prevent emigration and transform it into controlled expatriation, the States implement restrictive legislation. In France, this desire is reflected in a series of texts designed to prevent its subjects from settling permanently abroad. Through these measures the government pursues several objectives. The most important being to ensure that the assets amassed by the expatriates eventually find their way back to France. Another objective concerns only non-Catholic countries and, first and foremost, the Ottoman Empire. The authorities try to do everything possible to prevent their nationals converting to Islam. The article offers an analysis of the motivations that lead the French government to control expatriation. Above all, it will clarify the role that French consuls play in its implementation.

Arnaud Bartolomei Déchéance de nationalité ou de citoyenneté ? L’exclusion de l’immatriculation consulaire des ressortissants français en Espagne ayant prêté le serment de fidélité à Charles IV en 1791

Abstract:

In 1796, the French consul in Cadiz refused to record «on the matricular register» of French citizens residing abroad, compatriots who, five years earlier, had agreed to take an oath of loyalty to the King of Spain to escape the threats of expulsion that then weighed on French nationals. This decision gave rise to protests and led the political authorities of the Directorate to rule on the case of the citizens who took these oaths and, more generally, on the meaning of the consular registration procedure. The debates between the most radical elements of the revolutionary government, who wanted to exclude those who had taken the oath from French nationality, and the pragmatists, anxious not to deprive France of part of its living forces, lead to the question of the condition of foreigners in modern Europe, and the changes induced by the revolutionary rupture, from the point of view of their country of origin.

Catia Brilli Una nación en camino La migración genovesa y la afiliación consular en las costas atlánticas (1770-1865)

Abstract:

Cet article analyse l’évolution du rôle des consuls dans les territoires de la monarchie hispanique, lors de l’émigration gênoise de la fin du xviiie siècle à la première moitié du xixe siècle. L’émigration depuis les côtes ligures a connu sur cette période de profonds changements politiques et institutionnels, qui ont conduit d’une part à la disparition de la même république de Gênes et à son annexion au royaume de Sardaigne, et d’autre part à la désintégration de la monarchie hispanique, à laquelle les hommes d’affaires génois avaient lié leurs fortunes. Afin d’identifier les éventuels changements ou les continuités dans l’affiliation consulaire génoise face à l’émergence de nouvelles réalités étatiques, l’analyse se concentrera sur le port de Cadix, un haut lieu du commerce avec les Indes et qui abrite l’une des plus importantes communautés d’expatriés à la fin de l’ancien régime, et le port de Buenos Aires, principal lieu d’établissement de l’émigration génoise moderne en Amérique après l’effondrement de l’ordre colonial.

Tomás Pérez Vejo La debatida nacionalidad de los españoles europeos en los nuevos Estados-nación americanos

Abstract:

The question of the nationality of Spaniards born in the monarchy’s European territories but living in America was complex and was debated in the States that had gained independence. Opinions oscillated between the universal declaration of citizenship and the equally universal expulsion of the natives of the old metropolis, both at times occurring within the same country. This work offers an analysis of the way in which this was resolved by the various new Nation-States, with particular attention to the Mexican case, on the assumption that it was not only an administrative problem, but that it formed part of the process of national construction in Latin America. A problem of nation rather than State.

Anne-Marie Planel Les ressortissants de la protection consulaire française en pays musulman  Le cas des Algériens de Tunisie sous le Second Empire

Abstract:

Since the capture of Algiers in 1830, Algerian Muslims and Jews who took refuge in this Ottoman regency could benefit from French consular protection under certain conditions and if they requested it. Few of them accepted being registered in this way. However, in 1865, Napoleon III’s declaration that the Arabs of Algeria were now French nationals, and no longer subjects, led to them hoping for «the right to have rights». The legal recognition of French national affiliation did not allow the Algerian colonised people to become French citizens collectively. However, it provoked a conflict of sovereignty between the French consulate and the bey of Tunis, the victims of which were the French-registered Algerians: some were deported by the Tunisian government to French Algeria, others were «denationalised» by the consulate if they continued to live within the «Tunisian nation»

Miscellanées

Antoine Brix À propos de l’original français de la traduction catalane des Grandes Chroniques de France

Santiago Aragón Mateos Aproximación a los campos semánticos de la sociedad en la lengua del Siglo de Oro

Francisco Orrego González «Un descubrimiento reserbado en la oscuridad de estos destinos…»

Carlos Nogueira A sátira na poesia realista portuguesa

Actualité de la recherche

Débats. Reflections on the Interplay between Race, Ethnicity and Migration 

Marie L. Mallet-Garcia et Bani Gill Reflections on the Interplay between Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

Luisa Feline Freier et Matthew Bird Seeing «Race» through a Prism: Relational Socio-racial Hierarchies and Immigration

Carlos Vargas-Silva Quantitative modelling of race, ethnicity and migration issues

Marie L. Mallet-Garcia The Interplay of Race, Immigration Policy and Belonging for DACA recipients

Francesca Esposito Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender

Michael Jones-Correa Reassessing Race and Ethnicity through a Migration Lens

Read more here: DOI 10.4000/mcv.14071

BOOK: Mira L. SIEGELBERG, Statelessness: A Modern History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780674976313, 31.50 EUR

 

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Harvard University Press is publishing a new book on the modern history of statelessness.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.

Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg’s innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless persons, to explore how and why the problem of statelessness compelled a new understanding of the international order in the twentieth century and beyond.

In the years following the First World War, the legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of cosmopolitan political and legal organization and challenged efforts to limit the boundaries of national membership and international authority. Yet, as Siegelberg shows, the emergence of mass statelessness ultimately gave rise to the rights regime created after World War II, which empowered the territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights, against alternative political configurations.

Today we live with the results: more than twelve million people are stateless and millions more belong to categories of recent invention, including refugees and asylum seekers. By uncovering the ideological origins of the international agreements that define categories of citizenship and non-citizenship, Statelessness better equips us to confront current dilemmas of political organization and authority at the global level.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mira L. Siegelberg is University Lecturer in the History of International Political Thought at the University of Cambridge and a past member of the Princeton University Society of Fellows.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. From a Subject of Fiction to a Legal Reality

2. Postimperial States of Statelessness

3. Postimperial Foundations of Political Order

4. The Real Boundaries of Membership

5. A Condition of World Order

6. Nationalizing International Society

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (4-5 March 2021, Berlin) (DEADLINE: 15 September 2020)

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We learned of a call for papers for a workshop on “Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century”. Here the call:

Call for Papers Workshop: Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century Date: 4 – 5 March 2021 Location: Humboldt University Berlin, International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work), Georgenstr. 23, 10117 Berlin Organizers: Beate Althammer, DFG-Project “The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)”, in cooperation with re:work Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2020 URL: https://rework.hu-berlin.de/borders-of-the-welfare-state-en.html

In current academic and political debates, the tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration are a heatedly discussed issue. How can promises of social security be kept in times of globalization? Is welfare only feasible in ‘closed’ nation states with tight border controls, or is migration, to the contrary, necessary for sustaining welfare systems? To what extent are social rights a privilege of national citizens, to what extent, and under what conditions, are they also due to foreign immigrants? Such questions have become an explosive and intensely scrutinized subject. Much less, however, is known about their historical dimensions. There exists by now a rich historiography on the origins of modern welfare policies; migration history is flourishing too; and in recent years, the history of citizenship has attracted increasing attention. Yet, these have largely remained three separate fields of research. Few works have studied in detail so far how European welfare states dealt with the challenges of migration in their formative phase, and what experiences, in turn, migrants have made with the social services of their host societies. The project “The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)” is attempting to fill this gap. Taking as its starting point the frequently postulated, but probably too simplistic hypothesis that the status of aliens deteriorated inversely to the expansion of citizens’ rights with the emergence of modern national welfare states, it explores the interrelations of labour migration and social policies in the decades around 1900. The project compares national discourses and legal frameworks of various European countries, analyses concrete administrative practices at the local level, and looks at the beginnings of international agreements on the reciprocal treatment of citizens who moved across borders. The aim is to write a transnational European history of the negotiations over the social entitlements of migrants in the early days of modern welfare-state building. Despite its transnational approach, the scope of the project is necessarily limited, in geographical and temporal terms as well as in terms of the aspects of ‘welfare’ and ‘migration’ it is able to take into account. Therefore, the planned workshop wants to open up its horizon by bringing together researchers who are working on related topics. Invited are historians, but also scholars from neighbouring disciplines (sociology, political sciences, anthropology, etc.) with a research interest in the interrelationships of migration and social policies from the eighteenth century to the present. Although the focus of the workshop will be on the evolution of European migration and welfare regimes, papers that offer extraEuropean perspectives are very welcome too. And although the focus will be on the impact of migration on ‘modern’ social policies and vice versa, also early modern historians are addressed who can help us to understand continuities and changes during the transition to modernity. Possible approaches of papers that explore the interrelationships of migration and social policies include: - Theoretical reflections on long-term developments - Semantics of welfare, belonging and social rights - Comparisons between national migration and welfare regimes - Case studies on local constellations and experiences - Case studies on specific migrant groups or specific sectors of welfare provision - Case studies on periods of disruption, e.g. in the wake of wars or economic crises - Transnational studies on the cross-border coordination of migration and social policies The workshop is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) and will take place in Berlin from 4 to 5 March 2021 at the premises of re:work. The organizers will provide accommodation as well as (limited) reimbursement of travel expenses. Should travel restrictions or other impediments to on-site events due to the Covid-19 pandemic still be in force, we will consider switching to an, in parts, digital format. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. We plan to publish a selection of revised papers. Please send proposals comprising a title, an abstract of about 300 words and a short CV, to beate.althammer@hu-berlin.de by 15 September 2020.

More info on the website of the project.

BOOK: Julia ROSE KRAUT, Threat of Dissent - A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780674976061, 31.50 EUR

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Harvard University Press is publishing a history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this first comprehensive overview of the intersection of immigration law and the First Amendment, a lawyer and historian traces ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States from the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to the evolving policies of the Trump administration.

Beginning with the Alien Friends Act of 1798, the United States passed laws in the name of national security to bar or expel foreigners based on their beliefs and associations—although these laws sometimes conflict with First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and association or contradict America’s self-image as a nation of immigrants. The government has continually used ideological exclusions and deportations of noncitizens to suppress dissent and radicalism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the War on Anarchy to the Cold War to the War on Terror.

In Threat of Dissent—the first social, political, and legal history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States—Julia Rose Kraut delves into the intricacies of major court decisions and legislation without losing sight of the people involved. We follow the cases of immigrants and foreign-born visitors, including activists, scholars, and artists such as Emma Goldman, Ernest Mandel, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, and John Lennon. Kraut also highlights lawyers, including Clarence Darrow and Carol Weiss King, as well as organizations, like the ACLU and PEN America, who challenged the constitutionality of ideological exclusions and deportations under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court, however, frequently interpreted restrictions under immigration law and upheld the government’s authority.

By reminding us of the legal vulnerability foreigners face on the basis of their beliefs, expressions, and associations, Kraut calls our attention to the ways that ideological exclusion and deportation reflect fears of subversion and serve as tools of political repression in the United States.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julia Rose Kraut, a lawyer and historian, was the inaugural Judith S. Kaye Fellow for the Historical Society of the New York Courts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Sovereignty and Self-Preservation

2. War on Anarchy

3. Making Democracy Safe in America

4. Denaturalization, Detention, Deportation, and Discretion

5. An Iron Curtain of the West

6. The Return of McCarranism

7. One Door Closes, Another Opens

8. War on Terror

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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BOOK: Lucy E. SALYER, Under the Starry Flag : How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018). ISBN 9780674057630, €27.00

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Harvard University Press is publishing a new book which deals i.a. with aspects of the history of US emigration/immigration law.

ABOUT THE BOOK  

The riveting story of forty Irish Americans who set off to fight for Irish independence, only to be arrested by Queen Victoria’s authorities and accused of treason: a tale of idealism and justice with profound implications for future conceptions of citizenship and immigration.

In 1867 forty Irish-American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. Yet they never got a chance to fight. British authorities arrested them for treason as soon as they landed, sparking an international conflict that dragged the United States and Britain to the brink of war. Under the Starry Flag recounts this gripping legal saga, a prelude to today’s immigration battles.

The Fenians, as the freedom fighters were known, claimed American citizenship. British authorities disagreed, insisting that naturalized Irish Americans remained British subjects. Following in the wake of the Civil War, the Fenian crisis dramatized anew the idea of citizenship as an inalienable right, as natural as freedom of speech and religion. The captivating trial of these men illustrated the stakes of extending those rights to arrivals from far-flung lands. The case of the Fenians, Lucy E. Salyer shows, led to landmark treaties and laws acknowledging the right of exit. The U.S. Congress passed the Expatriation Act of 1868, which guaranteed the right to renounce one’s citizenship, in the same month it granted citizenship to former American slaves.

The small ruckus created by these impassioned Irish Americans provoked a human rights revolution that is not, even now, fully realized. Placing Reconstruction-era debates over citizenship within a global context, Under the Starry Flag raises important questions about citizenship and immigration.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lucy E. Salyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law, which won the Theodore Saloutos Book Award for the best book on immigration history. A former Constance E. Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Salyer has received the Arthur K. Whitcomb Professorship for teaching excellence and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue: Erin’s Hope and the Forgotten Right of Expatriation

I. The Fenians and the Making of a Crisis

1. Clonakilty, God Help Us!

2. Exiles and Expatriates

3. The Fenian Pest

4. Civis Americanus Sum

II. Citizenship on Trial

5. A Floating Rebellion

6. The Voice from the Dungeon

7. All the World’s a Stage

III. Reconstructing Citizenship

8. Are Naturalized Americans, Americans?

9. This Is a White Man’s Government!

10. The Politics of Expatriation

11. Private Diplomatizing

12. Treating Expatriation

Epilogue: Exits

Notes

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

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CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Les professeurs allemands en Belgique : Circulation des savoirs juridiques et enseignement du droit (Bruxelles, 18-19 octobre 2018) (DEADLINE 30 JUNE 2018)

   

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Les professeurs allemands en Belgique :

Circulation des savoirs juridiques et enseignement du droit

(Bruxelles, 18-19 octobre 2018)

L’histoire des transferts culturels fait preuve aujourd’hui d’un dynamisme inédit. La relecture récente des phénomènes nationaux à la lumière des échanges internationaux et des flux transnationaux contribue à redéfinir la façon dont les frontières nationales sont à considérer, particulièrement pour le XIX^ème siècle où le modèle de l’État-nation s’est développé. L’importance des mouvements transnationaux affecte des domaines à la fois politiques, économiques, sociaux ou encore scientifiques. Le droit et les savoirs juridiques ne sont évidemment pas exempts de ces transferts. Les transferts culturels et la circulation des savoirs reposent sur un substrat de facteurs variés. Se pencher sur la question des professeurs de droit allemands en Belgique ce n’est pas s’éprendre uniquement de la question du droit, de l’enseignement du droit et des influences entre aires nationales juridiques. C’est également aborder des terrains qui ont trait à l’histoire des idées, des migrations, de la science et plus globalement de la vie académique. L’intérêt plus spécifique pour la présence de professeurs allemands en Belgique est également (relativement) neuf. Les échanges avec la sphère culturelle et scientifique germanique ont fait l’objet de peu de recherches systématiques, toutes disciplines confondues, sauf si ce n’est ponctuellement dans des domaines spécifiques - nous pensons notamment aux sciences historiques (P. Dhondt, Un double compromis, 2011). Dans le cadre du droit et des sciences juridiques, les professeurs de droit ont été mis à l’honneur dans des publications honorifiques et commémoratives. Certes ce constat n’est toutefois pas isolé. L’ensemble de l’enseignement du droit s’est écrit, à de rares exceptions, dans un esprit similaire. Au-delà du droit, ces caractéristiques ont marqué durant de nombreuses décennies l’historiographie de l’enseignement supérieur et universitaire belge.

Face à ce constat, il semble que « l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit en Belgique reste largement à écrire » (Jérôme de Brouwer 2015). Ce faisant, l’évolution du rôle joué par les professeurs de droit formés dans les universités de la Confédération  germanique et qui sont venus enseigner dans les universités belges à partir de 1817 est  aussi un champ à explorer. Dans une nation qui se revendique au XIX^ème siècle d’une identité plurielle marquée par la forte présence, à de multiples niveaux, de l’héritage et de l’influence français, la notion de professeurs allemands et de circulation des savoirs prend tout son sens. D’autant plus le statut de professeur « étranger » pour la période concernée a de quoi interpeller comme la notion d’université belge. En reflet du droit et du système juridique, la base de l’organisation de l’enseignement adoptée dès 1830 et reconduite dans la première loi organique en matière d’enseignement supérieur (loi du 27 septembre 1835) est issue principalement des périodes antérieures à l’indépendance. C’est pourquoi la date de 1817 a été retenue. Elle correspond à la fondation des premières universités modernes dans les provinces méridionales du royaume des Pays-Bas dont aujourd’hui Gand et Liège sont directement héritières. Quant à l’année 1914, elle correspond au début de la première guerre mondiale et à la fin du long dix-neuvième siècle.

Ainsi, Leopold August Warnkönig (1794-1866), le plus célèbre de ces « professeurs allemands », était un ancien élève de Thibaut à Heidelberg puis d’Hugo à Göttingen où il passe son doctorat (Gerkens 2015) avant de devenir dès 1817 professeur de droit romain à l’université de Liège. Il s’est ensuite illustré à travers son rôle dans la Revue Thémis (fondée en 1819) avant de poursuivre son parcours belge à Louvain (1827-1830) puis à Gand (1831-1836) et de retourner en Allemagne pour y poursuivre et terminer sa carrière. Mais, ce phénomène de juriste « germanique » en Belgique ne se limite évidemment pas à l’illustre Warnkönig. A Liège se trouvait également Jean-George Wagemann (1782-1825) depuis 1820, lequel avait aussi été formé à Heidelberg.  De même à Gand, la jeune faculté de droit fit appel à Jacques-Joseph Haus (1796-1881), docteur de l’Université de Würzburg, pour y enseigner d’abord le droit pénal et le droit naturel. Johann Rudolf Thorbecke (1798-1872), bien que né aux Pays-Bas, était également d’origine allemande. Il enseigna également à Gand à partir de 1825 après un long séjour en Allemagne et une année en tant que chargé de cours à Göttingen. D’abord professeur de sciences politiques, il enseigne le droit à partir de 1833. Enfin à Louvain, se trouvait dès 1817 (jusqu’en 1830) Jean-François-Michel Birnbaum (1792-1877) comme professeur de droit après des études à Erlangen et à Landshut auprès de Mittermaier et de Savigny. De plus, après les départs de Birnbaum et Wankönig de Louvain, un autre allemand s’y trouva comme professeur d’Antiquités romaines à partir de 1834 puis d’histoire politique (à partir de 1838) à savoir Guillaume Arendt (1808-1865) père du diplomate Louis Arendt (1843-1924). En dehors de ces trois facultés de droit créées ou réinstaurées en 1817, une deuxième vague de professeurs allemands va se retrouver au sein de l’Université libre de Belgique fondée en 1834. Ainsi Henri Ahrens, qui avait été l’élève de Krause à Göttingen, y enseigne dès 1834 et jusqu’en 1848 le droit naturel. Il retourne ensuite en Allemagne où il siège à l’Assemblée nationale de Francfort avant d’enseigner de nouveau le droit à Graz et à Leipzig. Deux autres allemands, Egide Arntz (1812-1884) et Charles Gustave Maynz (1812-1882) ont rejoint Ahrens à Bruxelles. Arntz avait étudié à Munich, Iéna, Bonn et Heidelberg avant d’effectuer son doctorat à Liège. Ce dernier fonda la revue la Belgique judiciaire (1842) avant de devenir un influent internationaliste, membre de l’Institut du droit international depuis 1877. Quant à Maynz, qui étudia à Rome et à Berlin, il fut professeur de droit romain.

Ainsi, une dizaine de juristes allemands ont été des professeurs de droit de premier plan en Belgique de 1817 à 1871. Pour autant, même si la plupart de ces trajectoires individuelles sont connues (même s’il n’existe quasiment pas de biographies scientifiques sur eux), aucune étude d’ensemble n’a étudié cette présence allemande dans l’enseignement du droit en Belgique durant le 19^ème siècle. Il conviendrait de préciser les contours de ce phénomène des juristes allemands en Belgique dans le contexte plus large de la circulation des hommes et des savoirs dans les universités belges pendant le 19^ème siècle. De plus, les raisons de ces migrations (manque de personnel directement formé en Belgique ; facteurs politiques et mouvements libéraux en Allemagne) devront être mises en exergue. Il serait aussi évidemment intéressant de se pencher plus en détail sur les thématiques de l’enseignement du droit. D’autre part, les questions liées à l’histoire des migrations politiques et intellectuelles et à la formation du droit de la nationalité pourront être évoquées dans une perspective européenne et comparatiste. De même, les réseaux épistolaires des juristes entre la France, la Belgique et l’Allemagne (voir notamment l’exemple classique de Mittermaier) gagneraient à être étudiés plus en détail ainsi que la question de la formation d’une culture juridique « belge ». 

Les propositions, qui comporteront une présentation succincte de la communication envisagée avec indication des sources (2 500 caractères), son titre et un court curriculum vitae, doivent être envoyées aux organisateurs avant le 30 juin 2018 :

raphael.cahen@vub.be et mjottran@ulb.ac.be

Comité organisateur

Jérôme de Brouwer (ULB)
Raphael Cahen (VUB-FWO)
Frederik Dhondt (VUB/Anvers)
Maxime Jottrand (ULB)     

Comité scientifique

Pierre Bonin

Jacques Bouineau

Jean-François Gerkens

Dirk Heirbaut

Michael Stolleis

CALL FOR PAPERS: Migration and Gender : relationships, economic resources and institutions in historical perspective (15th-20th centuries) (DEADLINE 15 JUL 2018)

  

CFP: Migration and Gender : relationships, economic resources and institutions in historical perspective (15th-20th centuries)

University of Cambridge (UK) 

8-9-10 November 2018 (tbc)

 Migration and mobility were common experiences among individuals of the past. If for a long while the young male has epitomised “the migrant”, since the 1980s, a new wave of studies pointed out the relevance of women. In addition, the notion of gender has  called into question traditional female and male roles. Nevertheless, many key issues of the history of migration have not been considered according to a gendered perspective, and in turn, many crucial topics for gender history have been overlooked when studying migrants and mobile people. 

 This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on migration according to a gendered perspective and to a micro-historical perspective from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. Its purpose is to encourage a more incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies, taking into account the fact that female and male roles were, and are, the result of social, cultural and economic construction. Together with gender, proposals might consider how marital status, age and ethnicity shaped migration and settlement patterns in specific economic, cultural and political contexts.

 In this workshop, migration is not exclusively understood as a lineal process, but also as result of multiple intermediary steps. At the same time, the achievement of permanent settlement was not necessarily the (first) aim of the movement. For all these historiographical questions, a gendered approach has not yet been sufficiently developed: we invite therefore papers taking into account all kinds of mobility and migration, i.e. temporary or seasonal mobility, economic, political or religious migration, domestic/international migration and mobility between the town and its outskirts.

A first group of questions concerns the material and economic resources mobilised by migrants. Proposals might investigate what means women and men used to move and settle down or might study how they manage to maintain – or abandon – assets and/or relationships in their birth community. From another point of view  we need to know more about places where newcomers met other people and/or were able to find useful information  (i.e. inns, taverns, lodging in private houses etc.). 

 A second bundle of questions concerns the nature and the extension of social resources newcomers were able to mobilise, to build and to use in migration and/or settlement paths or, at least, during their temporarily stay in the town. Research might investigate how these ties – made up by professional intermediaries, individuals or institutions -  influenced, successfully or not, the daily life, the research for a job or a house, the access to credit networks, to poor relief or to other urban resources etc... 

 A third bundle of questions concerns laws and customs, and more generally authorities and institutions (guilds, charity institutions, citizenship etc…) monitoring and regulating the presence of newcomers. Proposals might consider whether these norms existed, whether they had a gendered impact on the behaviour of migrants, and what where the factors at stake (marital status, age, specific economic sectors etc...). 

               Please submit an abstract in English (500 words maximum) to bz268@cam.ac.uk  by 15^th July 2018 with MIGRATION AND GENDER WORKSHOP 2018 in the subject line.

The selected authors will be required to present their research in a 20 minutes presentation. The language of the workshop is English. 

After the workshop a selection of papers will be considered for publication. Some funds will be available for the translation in English of the selected articles.

Accommodation in Cambridge, a dinner and refreshments will be provided by the organisation. Limited funds for travels will be available.

This workshop benefits of funds from the Horizon European Union's research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement N. 703737.

For further enquires please do not hesitate to write to Beatrice Zucca :  bz268@cam.ac.uk.

CALL FOR PAPER - IV International Conference "“MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN THE LAW. Historic evolution, current situation and unsolved questions”; DEADLINE 15 SEP 2018

IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CHAIR INNOCENT III

MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN THE LAW 

Historic evolution, current situation and unsolved

questions

Murcia (Spain), December 12 -13 -14, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Chair Innocent III calls on all interested researchers to submit papers related to the human mobility and the reception of refugees according to History of Law, Canon Law, Roman Law, Comparative Law, Philosophy, Theology, History, Sociology, Historiography and any other discipline related to the main theme, as stated in the following:

SESSIONS

December 12: session 1. THE MIGRATION IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY.

Historical approach to human mobility.

December 13: session 2. NATION, STATE, REVOLUTION. The situation of the migrants and the refugees from the origin of the modern State.

December 14: session 3. BETWEEN EMERGENCY AND ORDINARINESS: Proposals for the enhancement of a constant phenomenon in the contemporary age.

PROPOSALS

Title, academic affiliation, short CV and Abstract - 200 words - (EN, IT, ES, DE, FR), via mail:

catedrainocencio@gmail.com

DEADLINE

September 15, 2018. The Scientific Committee will respond to the proposal before September 30, 2018.

PUBLICATION

Papers selected by the Scientific Committee will be published in the special issue of the journal Vergentis (ISSN: 2445-2394) in the first half of 2019.

             

IV Congreso Internacional CÁTEDRA INOCENCIO III

MIGRANTES Y REFUGIADOS EN EL DERECHO

Evolución histórica, situación actual y cuestiones no resueltas

          Murcia (España), 12,13,14 diciembre de 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

La Cátedra Internacional Inocencio III invita a los investigadores interesados a presentar trabajos relacionados con el tema de la movilidad humana y la acogida de los refugiados desde el punto de vista del Historia del Derecho, Derecho Canónico, Derecho Romano, Derecho Comparado, Filosofía, Teología, Historia, Sociología y cualquier otra disciplina relacionada con el tema propuesto, en el marco de las siguientes

SESIONES

12   de diciembre: sesión 1. LA MIGRACIÓN EN EL MUNDO ANTIGUO Y MEDIEVAL. Enfoque histórico del tema de la movilidad humana.  

13   de diciembre: sesión   2. NACIÓN, ESTADO, REVOLUCIÓN. La situación de los migrantes y de los refugiados desde el nacimiento del Estado moderno.

14   de diciembre: sesión 3. ENTRE LA EMERGENCIA Y LO ORDINARIO. Propuestas para la valorización de un fenómeno constante en la edad contemporánea.

PRESENTACIÓN DE PROPUESTAS

Título de la comunicación, afiliación académica, breve curriculum vitae y resumen de 200 palabras. Idiomas: EN, IT, ES, DE y FR, vía email: catedrainocencio@gmail.com

FECHA LÍMITE

15 de septiembre de 2018. El Comité científico aceptará o rechazará la propuesta antes del 30 de septiembre de 2018.

PUBLICACIÓN

Las comunicaciones elegidas por el Comité científico serán publicadas en el número monográfico de la Revista Vergentis (ISSN: 2445-2394) en el primer semestre del año 2019.

             

IV Congresso Internazionale CATTEDRA INNOCENZO III

MIGRANTI E RIFUGIATI NEL DIRITTO

Evoluzione storica, situazione attuale e questioni irrisolte

          Murcia (Spagna), 12,13,14 dicembre 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

La Cattedra Innocenzo III invita gli studiosi interessati ad apportare il loro contributo scientifico sul tema della mobilità umana e dell’accoglienza dei rifugiati dal punto di vista della Storia del Diritto, del Diritto Canonico, del Diritto Romano, del Diritto Comparato, della Filosofia, della Teologia, della Storia, della Sociologia, e di ogni altra disciplina pertinente al tema proposto, nell’ambito delle seguenti

SESSIONI

12  dicembre: sessione 1. LA MIGRAZIONE NEL MONDO ANTICO E MEDIEVALE. Approccio storico al tema della mobilità umana.  

13  dicembre: sessione 2. NAZIONE, STATO, RIVOLUZIONE. La situazione dei migranti e dei rifugiati a partire dalla nascita dello Stato moderno.

14  dicembre: sessione 3. TRA EMERGENZA E ORDINARIETÀ. Proposte per la valorizzazione di un fenomeno costante nell’età contemporanea.

PRESENTAZIONE DELLE PROPOSTE

Titolo della comunicazione, affiliazione accademica, breve curriculum vitae e abstract di 200 parole. Lingue: EN, IT, ES, DE, FR, via mail a: catedrainocencio@gmail.com

TERMINE  

15 settembre 2018. Il Comitato scientifico darà risposta a coloro che avranno presentato l'abstract entro il 30 settembre 2018.

PUBBLICAZIONE

Le comunicazioni scelte dal comitato scientifico saranno pubblicate nel numero monografico della Rivista Vergentis (ISSN: 2445-2394) nel primo semestre del 2019.

ARTICLE: "Black City and White Country. Immigration and Identity in the History of British Decolonization", by Benedikt Stuchtey

Black City and White Country. Immigration and Identity in the History of British Decolonization, by Benedikt Stuchtey

Black City and White Country. Immigration and Identity in the History of British Decolonization" is the title of a new publication by Benedikt Stuchtey. The article has been published in the e-journal "Global Europe - Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective".

In his article, the author looks at the question of integrative and disintegrative elements of imperial rule in multiethnic societies and identifies lines of continuity between the imperial past and post-imperial realities: What influence did immigration have on the construction of self-image in Britain after the Second World War, and what historical continuities existed, particularly with respect to ethnic policies?

Benedikt Stuchtey holds the Chair of Modern History at the University of Marburg. His special field of interest is the history of colonialism and imperialism from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In 2012/13, he held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Basel.

"Global Europe – Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective" is an academic e-journal. It provides insights into the excellent research of graduates, as well as other young and senior scientists who analyze the global implications of Europe and the European Union. The journal is published in four issues per year by the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. Readers can subscribe to it by sending an e-mail to europa@unibas.ch. In addition, the publication is available on the website https://europa.unibas.ch/forschung/basler-schriften/ .