1st Edition
Legal Responses to Mass Migration From the Nineteenth Century to World War II
Introduction. Legal history and mass migration: paths and methods
Cristina Vano
Section I: Discourses
1. From Vitoria to Kant: a genealogy of ius migrandi
Eliana Augusti
2. Emigration and colonisation. The debate in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century
Giulio Abbate
3. Leaving Italy. Transoceanic migration and legal discourse in the city of Napoli (1901-1910)
Virginia Amorosi
4. The “peculiar paradox” of the criminalisation of Italian immigrants in Argentina in the late nineteenth century
Francesco Rotondo
5. The Kaleidoscopic 1905 of Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. What two unrelated opinions could tell us about immigration law, American jurisprudence, and twentieth century exceptionalisms
Stefano Malpassi
Section II: Policies and institutions
6. The routes of child labour: juvenile emigration and police regulations between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Dolores Freda
7. The Società Umanitaria and Italian continental emigration: the entanglement between private regulation and official law
Giulia Di Giacomo
8. A first note about migrants and Italian legal devices against maritime syndicates in the early twentieth century
Alessandro Lalli
9. Changes in State and federal law and police against Italian organised crime: the New York case (1904-1914)
Francesco Landolfi
10. Refugee scholars from Nazi Germany and the impact of migration: what changed in the work of legal academics in exile and why?
Kaius Tuori
Section III: Legal practices
11. The only living Italian in Tianjin. Colonial governance and Sino-Italian relations at the beginning of twentieth century
Luigi Nuzzo
12. Attracting colonists from abroad: migration and legal regulation of labour in nineteenth century Brazil
Marjorie Carvalho de Souza
13. Justice and emigration: Italian emigrants and legal protection between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Alessia Maria Di Stefano
14. The protection of migrants in Italy in the proceedings of the Central Arbitration Commission for Emigration (1915-1929)
Stefano Vinci
15. Spanish republicans exiled in France: second-class Europeans for the French government
Enrique Roldán Cañizares
16. Exceptionality and common features of migration law in the age of mass migration
Michele Pifferi
References
Index
Biography
Luigi Nuzzo is Full Professor of Legal History and History of International Law at the University of Salento and Alexander von Humboldt fellow. His research topics focus mainly on the history of international law and history of derecho indiano.
Michele Pifferi is Full Professor of Legal History at the University of Ferrara, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and currently Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
Giuseppe Speciale is Full Professor of History of Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Law at the University of Catania. His research interests concern the medieval legal science, bankruptcy in modern era, the Italian legal culture between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the Italian fascist racial laws and their judicial application.
Cristina Vano is Full Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Her main research topics concern the German Historical School, the history of labour law, and communication strategies of European legal culture.
