Week 11

27th October 2023

Internal Bordering

• Lien Bich Luu, Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500–1700, Chapter 5: 'Reception and treatment of Immigrants' (London: Routledge, 2005)

• Nira Yuval-Davis, George Wemyss, and Kathryn Cassidy, 'Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation,' Sociology, Vol. 52(2) (2018) pp.228–244

• Anne Winter, ‘Regulating Urban Migration and Relief Entitlements in Eighteenth-Century Brabant’, in Gated Communities?: Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities, ed. by Bert De Munck and Anne Winter (London: Routledge, 2016)

Week 10

26th May 2023

Banishment and Exile

• Malcolm R. Thorp, 'The Anti-Huguenot Undercurrent in Late-Seventeenth-Century England', ' Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol.23 iss.6 (1976), pp.569–80

• Jeffrey Tyler, 'Refugees and Reform: Banishment and Exile in Early Modern Augsburg,' in Robert Bast and Andrew Colin Gow (eds.), Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late-Medieval and Reformation History (2000), 77-97.

• Gerard Wiegars, 'The Expulsion of 1609–1614 and the Polemical Writings of the Moriscos Living in the Diaspora', in Mercedes García-Arenal Rodriquez and Gerard Wiegars (eds.), The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (2014), 389-412.

Week 9

28th April 2023

Jewish migration(s)

• Florike Egmond, 'Limits of Tolerance: Justice and Anti-Semitism in a Sixteenth-Century Dutch Town' Jewish History, 1994, Vol.8, No. 1/2, The Robert Cohen Memorial Volume

• Jacob Selwood, 'Jewish Immigration, Anti-Semitism and the Diversity of Early Modern London' Jewish Culture and History, Vol.10, No. 1

•  Jeremy Fradkin, 'Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England'' Past and Present, no. 254 (Feb. 2022)

Week 8

24th February 2023

Policing and migration

• De Koster, Margot and Reinke, Herbert, 'Policing Minorities' in  The Oxford handbook of the history of crime and criminal justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) 

• King, Peter, 'Immigrant Communities, the Police and the Courts in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century London', Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies vol.20 iss.1 2016

• Denys, Catherine, 'The Development of Police Forces in Urban Europe in the Eighteenth Century', Journal of Urban History vol.36 iss.3, 2020

Week 7

25th November 2022

Xenophobia

Readings:

• Spicer, Andrew, 'William Herbert’s Considerations in the Behalf of Foreiners (1662)' in Spicer, Andrew, and Stevens Crawshaw, Jane L. (eds). The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750 (New York: Routledge, 2016)

• Luu, Lien Bich, '‘Taking the bread out of our mouths’: Xenophobia in early modern London' Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora vol. 19, iss. 2, 2000

• Waddell, Brodie, 'The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London' Historical Research, vol.94, iss. 266, 2021

Week 6

28th October 2022

Borders and Liminal Spaces

Readings:

• Doug Catterall, Jodi Campbell, 'Introduction', Women in port : gendering communities, economies, and social networks in Atlantic port cities, 1500-1800 (Lieden: Brill, 2012)

• Andrea Geselle, 'Domenica Saba Takes to the Road: Origins and Development of a Modern Passport System in Lombardy-Veneto' in Jane Caplan and John Torpey (eds.) Documenting Individual Identity The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002_

Week 5

Friday 8th July 2022

Vagrancy

Readings:

• David Hitchcock, ‘“Punishment Is All the Charity that the Law Affordeth Them”: Penal Transportation, Vagrancy, and the Charitable Impulse in the British Atlantic, c. 1600-1750’, New Global Studies, 12.2 (2018)

•  Rab Houston, ‘Vagrants and Society in Early Modern England’, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 6.1/2 (1980)

• Martine Van Elk, ‘The Counterfeit Vagrant: The Dynamic of Deviance in the Bridewell Court Records and the Literature of Roguery’, in Rogues and Early Modern English Culture, ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)

Week 4

Friday 27th May 2022

Early modern migration 'policy'

Readings:

• Kaplan, Benjamin, 'The Legal Rights of Religious Refugees in the ‘Refugee-Cities’ of Early Modern Germany' Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 32, No. 1, 2018

• Takeda, Junko Therese, 'Levantines and Marseille: The Politics of Naturalization and Neutralization in Early Modern France, 1660–1720', Seventeenth-century French Studies, Vol. 30 No. 2, 2008, 

• Luu, Lien Bich, Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500–1700 (London: Routledge, 2005), 'Chapter 5. Reception and Treatment of Immigrants'

Week 3

Friday 29th April 2022

Migration and Gender in early modernity

Readings:

•  Pol, Lotte van de, The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam (Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2011), chapter 6 ('Birds of a feather flock together: prostitutes, clients, and seafaring')

• Loomba Ania, and Sanchez, Melissa E, Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality (London: Routledge, 2016), chapter 7 (Andrea, Bernadette, ‘“Travelling Bodyes”: Native Women of the Northeast and Northwest Passage Ventures and English Discourses of Empire’)

Week 2

Friday 1st April 2022

Migration and Race in early modernity

Readings:

• Habib, Imtiaz, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible (Routledge, 2008), (Introduction)

• Thrush, Coll, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (Yale, 2016), chapter 2 (‘Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London 1580-1630’)

• Selwood, Jacob, Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London (Oxford: Routledge, repr. 2016), chapter 4 ('Jewish Immigration in an Anti-Stranger Context)

Week 1

Friday 25th February 2022