Legal Responses to Mass Migration

Introduction. Legal history and mass migration: paths and methods; Section I: Discourses; 1. From Vitoria to Kant: a genealogy of ius migrandi; 2. Emigration and colonisation. The debate in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century; 3. Leaving Italy. Transoceanic migration and legal discourse in the city of Napoli (1901-1910); 4. The âpeculiar paradoxâ of the criminalisation of Italian immigrants in Argentina in the late nineteenth century; 5. The Kaleidoscopic 1905 of Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. What two unrelated opinions could tell us about immigration law, American jurisprudence, and twentieth century exceptionalisms; Section II: Policies and institutions; 6. The routes of child labour: juvenile emigration and police regulations between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 7. The Societ  Umanitaria and Italian continental emigration: the entanglement between private regulation and official law; 8. A first note about migrants and Italian legal devices against maritime syndicates in the early twentieth century; 9. Changes in State and federal law and police against Italian organised crime: the New York case (1904-1914); 10. Refugee scholars from Nazi Germany and the impact of migration: what changed in the work of legal academics in exile and why?; Section III: Legal practices; 11. The only living Italian in Tianjin. Colonial governance and Sino-Italian relations at the beginning of twentieth century; 12. Attracting colonists from abroad: migration and legal regulation of labour in nineteenth century Brazil; 13. Justice and emigration: Italian emigrants and legal protection between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 14. The protection of migrants in Italy in the proceedings of the Central Arbitration Commission for Emigration (1915-1929); 15. Spanish republicans exiled in France: second-class Europeans for the French government; 16. Exceptionality and common features of migration law in the age of mass migration