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Author:   Luigi Nuzzo ,  Michele Pifferi ,  Giuseppe Speciale ,  Cristina Vano
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.940kg
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9781032910130

ISBN 10:   1032910135
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   11 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 “peculiar paradox” 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 Società 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

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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.

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