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Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights: Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s book cover

1st Edition

Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s

Edited By Beate Althammer Copyright 2024
296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship in the formative phases of modern welfare states from the late nineteenth century to the post-war... Read more

Connecting Welfare-State History and Migration History: an Introduction
Beate Althammer

Part I. – Negotiating Citizenship, Belonging and Social Rights

1. Negotiating the Right of Residence (Austria, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century)
Sigrid Wadauer

2. Neither Citizen nor Foreigner: Gendered Negotiations and Hierarchies of Belonging in Alsace, 1918–1919
Leonie Bausch

3. Foreign Workers in the French Labour Courts: a Battlefield for the Recognition of Social Rights
Federico Del Giudice

Part II. – Regulating Seasonal Migrations

4. Pious Guardians: the Swabian Children Association and Public Welfare in the Tyrolean Alps, 1891–1915
Johnathon Speed

5. New Rights and Hierarchies: Regulating Seasonal Farm Labour (Austria, 1918–1938)
Jessica Richter

Part III. – Cities and the Integration of Migrants

6. Migration and Municipal Socialism in Imperial German Strasbourg (1871–1914)
Philipp Heckmann-Umhau

7. Who Cares for Foreigners? Dutch Migrants in Prussian Cities, 1870–1933
Beate Althammer

8. Social Rights at Work: Italian Migrants on the Turin and Munich Labour Markets, 1950–1975
Olga Sparschuh

Part IV. – Globalising Social Rights

9. Guaranteeing the Social Rights of Migrant Workers – a Transnational History (1901–1939)
Giulio Francisci

10. Argentina’s Social Policy for Immigrants in the Interwar Period
Simon Gerards Iglesias

11. Migrants, Refugees and the Right to Social Assistance in Post-war Italy and France (1945–1961)
Giacomo Canepa

Biography

Beate Althammer is a researcher at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, with main interests in the social history of modern Europe. Her publications include the monograph Vagabunden (2017) and the journal article "‘Welfare Does Not Know Any Borders’ – Negotiations on the Transnational Assistance of Migrants before the World Wars" (2020).

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