Andreas Fahrmeir is currently in the History Department at the University of Cologne.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Andreas Fahrmeir, Olivier Faron and Patrick Weil

PART I: BEYOND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: NEW CONCEPTS OF CITIZENSHIP: NEW METHODS OF CONTROL

Chapter 1. The Eighteenth-Century Citizenship Revolution in France
Peter Sahlins

Chapter 2. 'African Citizens': Slavery, Freedom and Migration During the French Revolution
Laurent Dubois

Chapter 3. Paris and its Foreigners in the Late Eighteenth Century
Olivier Faron and Cyril Grange

Chapter 4. British Nationality Policy as a Counter-Revolutionary Strategy During the Napoleonic Wars: The Emergence of Modern Naturalization Regulations
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl

PART II: AN AGE OF EXPERIMENTATION: CONTROLLING MOVEMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 5. Passports and the Development of Immigration Controls in the North Atlantic World During the Long Nineteenth Century
John Torpey

Chapter 6. 'Beggars appear everywhere!': Changing Approaches to Migration Control in Mid- Nineteenth Century Munich
K. M. N. Carpenter

Chapter 7. Qualitative Migration Controls in the Antebellum United States
Gerald L. Neuman

Chapter 8. The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century West European Expulsion Policy, 1880-1914
Frank Caestecker

Chapter 9. Foreigners and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Austria: Juridical Concepts and Legal Rights in the Light of the Development of Citizenship
Birgitta Bader-Zaar

Chapter 10. Empowerment and Control: Conflicting Central and Regional Interests in Migration Within the Habsburg Monarchy
Andrea Komlosy

Chapter 11. Was the Nineteenth Century a Golden Age for Immigrants? The Changing Articulation of National, Local and Voluntary Controls
David Feldman

Chapter 12. Revolutionaries into Beggars: Alien Policies in the Netherlands 1814-1914
Leo Lucassen

PART III: NEW DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION CONTROL: COMMERCIAL INTERESTS, UNIONS AND POLITICIANS

Chapter 13. The Archaeology of 'Remote Control'
Aristide R. Zolberg

Chapter 14. Hamburg and the Transit of East European Emigrants
Katja Wüstenbecker

Chapter 15. Labour Unions and the Nationalisation of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1880-1924
Catherine Collomp

Chapter 16. Between Altruism and Self-Interest: Immigration Restriction and the Emergence of American-Jewish

Politics in the United States
Michael Berkowitz

Chapter 17. Races at the Gate. Racial Distinctions in Immigration Policy: A Comparison between France and the

United States
Patrick Weil

PART IV: PROVISIONAL CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 18. Law and Practice: Problems in Researching the History of Migration Controls
Andreas Fahrmeir

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