What is it about?
How port city administrations documented migration by using lists and forms and thereby tried to control the movement of people into the cities.
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Why is it important?
The article adds nuances to the common narrative about turn-of-century nation- and statehood: Nationality did not play any significant role for migration control in the so-called age of the nation state. City bureacracies were not perfoming particularly well but often got overwhelmed by their gathered information at the so-called heyday of the bureaucratic state.
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The text is about how standardized forms and lists transformed individual people into cases and numbers.
Christina Reimann
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This page is a summary of: People on Lists in Port Cities: Administrative Migration Control in Antwerp and Rotterdam (c. 1880–1914), Journal of Migration History, June 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/23519924-00602002.
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