This book brings together scholars from history, sociology and anthropology to explore cross-boundary mobility and migration during the formation, development, and transformation of the modern (nation-)state explicating the conflictive and fluctuating character of borders.

Margit Fauser is Professor of Migration, Transculturality and Internationalization at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Anne Friedrichs is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany.

Levke Harders is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Introduction

Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century

Margit Fauser, Anne Friedrichs and Levke Harders

1. The Multilayered Migration Regime in Turkey: Contested Regionalization, Deceleration and Legal Precarization

Firat Genç, Gerda Heck and Sabine Hess

2. Homogenous and Extra-territorial Border Regime? Migrations and Control Efforts Across the Eastern EU External Border

Bettina Bruns

3. The Creation of Illegal Migration in the German Confederation, 1815-1866

Michael Schubert

4. Engines of Social Change? Peasant Migration and the Transgression of Spatial, Legal and Cultural Divides in Late Imperial Russia

Lutz Karl Häfner

5. Belonging, Migration, and Profession in the German-Danish Border Region in the 1830s

Levke Harders

6. A Site of Shifting Boundaries: Fostering and Limiting Mobility in the Ruhr Valley (1860-1910)

Anne Friedrichs

7. The Emergence of Urban Border Spaces in Europe

Margit Fauser

8. Conclusion: Historical Perspectives on Borderlands, Boundaries and Migration Control

Andreas Fahrmeir