Legal Responses to Mass Migration: From the Nineteenth Century to World War II (Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032910135 ISBN 13: 9781032910130

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This volume explores the legal history of migration and the role played by legal theories, case law, practices, customary laws, and legislations in shaping and governing mobility between the 19th century and the Second World War. Based on different methodological approaches and sources, including archival documents, special courts’ decisions, diplomatic materials, legal journals and books, and international treaties, the chapters focus on countries of departure and destination both in Western and Eastern regions. Confronted with mass migration, Western legal science has been forced to rethink concepts and institutions such as borders, citizenship and the principle of territoriality. Special courts and administrative bodies were created to govern and control this new complex social phenomenon. This work, related to the national research project Legal History and Mass Migration: Integration, Exclusion, and Criminalization of Migrants in the 19th and 20th Century (Prin 2017), contributes to the investigation of the historical tensions between individual freedom of mobility and state sovereignty over border control. It contributes to the current public debate on ius migrandi – freedom of movement, or the right to migrate – showing the complexity of its historical dimension. The book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Legal History, Legal Theory, Sociology of Law, International Migration Law, Labor Law and Criminology, as well as those working on themes related to Forced Migration and Refugee Studies.

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About the Author

Luigi Nuzzo is Full Professor of Legal History and History of International Law at the University of Salento and Alexander von Humboldt fellow. His research topics focus mainly on the history of international law and history of derecho indiano.

Michele Pifferi is Full Professor of Legal History at the University of Ferrara, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and currently Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.

Giuseppe Speciale is Full Professor of History of Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Law at the University of Catania. His research interests concern the medieval legal science, bankruptcy in modern era, the Italian legal culture between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the Italian fascist racial laws and their judicial application.

Cristina Vano is Full Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Her main research topics concern the German Historical School, the history of labour law, and communication strategies of European legal culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032910135
• ISBN 13: 9781032910130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Nuzzo Luigi, Pifferi Michele, Speciale Giuseppe, Vano Cristina