Der Band bietet einen Überblick über die Rechtsstellung von Fremdgruppen in Herrschaftsverbänden und Gesellschaftsordnungen der mediterran-europäischen Welt. Dargestellt werden die rechtlichen und politischen Regelungen von Teilhabe und Ausschluss Fremder von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Besondere Beachtung finden die Einflüsse, welche religiöse Vorstellungen, demographische Umstände, politische Verfassungen und die Semantiken von Fremdheit auf die Gleichstellung bzw. Andersbehandlung Fre...

In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing...

The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship in the formative phases of modern welfare states from the late nineteenth century to the post-war era.The present volume contributes to filling this gap and thus to putting a highly topic...