In this volume, the theme of early-modern European urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts. Each chapter demonstrates how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups of migrants was a core feature of everyday urban life, and explores the ways in which city authorities attempted to control the moral, political, religious and economic life of these newcomers.

1: Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities: An Introduction; 1: Repertoires of Inclusion and Exclusion: Guilds and Citizenship; 2: Migrant Workers and Illicit Labour: Regulating the Immigration of Building Workers in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp; 3: Craft Guilds and Immigration: Huguenots in German and English Cities; 4: Heresy, War, Vagrancy and Labour Needs: Dealing with Temporary Migrants in the Textile Towns of Flanders, Artois and Hainaut in the Wake of the Dutch Revolt (1566-1609); 5: Local Categories of Residence Redefined: The Former Imperial City of Strasbourg and the Politics of the French Crown (1681-1789); 2: Instruments of Regulation: Policies and Policing; 6: Who Is Not Welcome? Reception and Rejection of Migrants in Early Modern Italian Cities; 7: Immigration Policy in Eighteenth-Century Trieste; 8: Urban Police and the Regulation of Migration in Eighteenth-Century France; 3: Crossing the Lines: Begging and Poor Relief; 9: Magistrates, Beggars, and Labourers: Migration and Regulation in Sixteenth-Century Ulm; 10: Regulating Urban Migration and Relief Entitlements in Eighteenth-Century Brabant; 11: Rough Lives: Autobiography and Migration in Eighteenth-Century England; 4: Comparisons and Conclusions; 12: Cities, States and Migration Control in Western Europe: Comparing Then and Now; 13: Conclusions