Anne Winter is Lecturer and Francqui Research Professor in the history department of the Vrije Universiteit-Brussel. Her publications include Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860 (Pickering & Chatto, 2009) and Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (with Bert De Munck, Ashgate, 2012).

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Introduction: Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1600-1950: Structures, Negotiations and Experiences
Joanna Innes, Steven King and Anne Winter

Chapter 1. Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth Century
David Feldman

Chapter 2. Double Deterrence: Settlement and Practice in London's West End, 1725-1824
Jeremy Boulton

Chapter 3. Poor Relief, Settlement and Belonging in England 1780s to 1840s
Steven King

Chapter 4. Memories of Pauperism
Jane Humphries

Chapter 5. Belonging, Settlement and the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1870s-1900s
Elizabeth Hurren

Chapter 6. Citizens But Not Belonging: Migrants' Difficulties in Obtaining Entitlement to Relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the Early Twentieth Century
Anne-Lise Head-König

Chapter 7. Overrun by Hungry Hordes? Migration and Poor Relief in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen

Chapter 8. Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 1650-1800
Thijs Lambrecht

Chapter 9. Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrants' Access to Relief in Antwerp
Anne Winter

Chapter 10. Trajectories of German Settlement Regulations: The Prussian Rhine Province, 1815-1914
Andreas Gestrich

Afterward: National Citizenship and Migrants' Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Europe
Paul-André Rosental

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