9 Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrants’ Access to Relief in Antwerp

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction. Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s: Structures, Negotiations and Experiences 1
5. 1 Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth Century 29
6. 2 Double Deterrence: Settlement and Practice in London’s West End, 1725–1824 54
7. 3 Poor Relief, Settlement and Belonging in England, 1780s to 1840s 81
8. 4 Memories of Pauperism 102
9. 5 Belonging, Settlement and the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1870s–1900s 127
10. 6 Citizens But Not Belonging: Migrants’ Diffi culties in Obtaining Entitlement to Relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the Early Twentieth Century 153
11. 7 Overrun by Hungry Hordes?: Migration and Poor Relief in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries 173
12. 8 Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 1650–1800 204
13. 9 Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrants’ Access to Relief in Antwerp 228
14. 10 Trajectories of German Settlement Regulations: The Prussian Rhine Province, 1815–1914 250
15. Afterword. National Citizenship and Migrants’ Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Europe 269
16. Notes on Contributors 281
17. Bibliography 285
18. Index 309