This book examines how migration and mobility were controlled, supported, and restricted in early modern Europe and European colonies. The aim of the book is to investigate how different actors, such as rulers, regional lords, local authorities, and corporations tried to regulate different forms of mobility and how those on the move reacted to these attempts. The book examines the agency of both the authorities and the migrants, shifting focus between the macro and the micro level. The chapters will also illuminate the ways gender, religion, language, ethnicity, occupation, and socioeconomic status were entangled in the regulations concerning mobility. Control of migration is inextricably linked with power relations. In this book, mobility is seen as a wide social process, which covers daily or seasonal movement as well as less or more stable migration.

Explores the phenomenon of mobility specifically in the early modern period Offers insights into the historical roots of modern migration policies and society's response to them Provides perspectives for those researching gender, colonialism and indigenous history

Autorentext
Katja Tikka is a legal historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on early modern Nordic legislation in different fields and societies. Tikka also teaches legal culture at the University of Lapland, Finland as a visiting teacher.

Lauri Uusitalo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Unit of History, Philosophy and Literary Studies at Tampere University, Finland. His research explores the history of early colonial Spanish America, and in particular, indigenous agency in the colonial society.

Mateusz Wyzga is Associate Professor in the Institute of History and Archival Studies at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland. His research focuses on the history of mobility and migration, rural history, the socio-economic history of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and historical demography. He is also interested in social archival studies and regional historiography.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction - Katja Tikka and Mateusz Wyga.- Part I: Economy Behind the Mobility .- Chapter 2: From Foreign Mercenaries to the King's Trusted Companions - Emergence of the Swedish-Scottish Recruitment Network 1556-1610-Jaakko Björklund and Sebastian Schiavone.- Chapter 3: Early Swedish Trading Companies - Shortcut to Migration?-Katja Tikka.- Chapter 4: 'Notoriously and publicly known to the stock exchange': Private initiatives in early modern Amsterdam to ransom and repatriate Barbary captives-Tessa de Boer and Jirsi Reinders.- Part II: Islands, Peripheries, and Colonies .- Chapter 5: Multiethnic Islands in the Middle of Indigenous Lands: Native Migration to the Colonial Towns in the Northern Andes, 15501650-Lauri Uusitalo.- Chapter 6: Not Wanted on the Island? Managing Outlanders in Early Modern Iceland-Katelin Marit Parsons.- Part III: Empires Regulation and Control .- Chapter 7: Liquid identity? Peasants' mobility and migration policies inthe Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the seventeenth century. The case of the microregions of Gdask and Cracow-Mateusz Wyga and Jamina Korczak-Siedlecka.- Chapter 8: One does not simply walk out of Sweden: Early Modern regulations and conceptualizations of migration-Martin Andersson.- Chapter 9: Between the Abolition of Serfdom and Servitude: The control of mobility and migrations of rural population conducted by manorial officers on behalf of the Habsburg Monarchy and its army (South Bohemia Tebo Estate during the Napoleonic Wars)-Josef Grulich.- Chapter 10: Concluding Remarks-Lauri Uusitalo.