1st Edition
Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940
Introduction
Christina Reimann and Martin Öhman
Part I: Migrants and the Construction of Port City Spaces
1. Migrant Agencies in the Early Modern Manila Bay
Birgit Tremml-Werner
2. Space, Representation and Practice in the Formation of Izmir During the Long Nineteenth Century
Fatma Tanış and Carola Hein
3. "Let Genius and Patriotism, from Whatever Quarter of the Earth, Be Naturalized among Us": New York City Friends of Industry and Foreign Migrants, c. 1815–1842
Martin Öhman
4. Foreign Sailors and Working-Class Communities: Race, Crime and Moral Panics in London’s Sailortown, 1880–1914
Brad Beaven
5. The "Greatest Traveller of Them All": Rats, Port Cities, and the Plague in U.S. Imperial History (c. 1899–1915)
Andrea Wiegeshoff
Part II: Urban-Maritime Space and Migrant Experiences
6. "You Cannot Pass": The Reception and Rejection of a Stranger in Helsingborg, 1744
Sari Nauman
7. The Transit Stage as a Migratory Experience: The Syrians in Marseille (1880–1920)
Céline Regnard
8. Migration, Maritime Labor, and Family: The Life Course of Carel Hendrik Bloebaum, 1848–1916
Kristof E. Loockx
9. Foreign Female Sex Workers in an Atlantic Port City: Elite Prostitution in Late Nineteenth-Century Antwerp
Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter
10. Entangling the Past and the Present: The Place of Port Cities in Self-Narratives of German-Speaking Forty-Eighters
Sarah Panter
11. Labor Mobility and Migrations in the Barcelona Docks, c. 1900–1950
Jordi Ibarz
Epilogue: What Do Histories of Migration Tell Us About Port Cities?
Joseph Prestel
Biography
Christina Reimann is a researcher at Stockholm University and at Södertörn University.
Martin Öhman is a researcher at Gothenburg University.
