{"id":10448,"date":"2020-11-23T17:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2020-11-25T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:58:45","slug":"migration-and-integration-global-cities-of-the-mediterranean-region-in-the-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/migration-and-integration-global-cities-of-the-mediterranean-region-in-the-18th-century\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Migration and Integration: Global Cities of the Mediterranean Region in the 18th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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La proclamazione del porto franco di Trieste 18 marzo 1719, painting by Cesare Dell’Acqua (1855)<\/p><\/div>\n

David Do Pa\u00e7o<\/a>,<\/a><\/i> Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Centre for History, investigates the production of social relations in situations of strong diversity on local, regional and global scales. His research lies at the intersection between urban history, global microhistory and the new history of international relations. Drawing on the lessons of 18th century history, he attempts to provide solutions to current issues: how can foreigners be integrated in increasingly large, dense and diverse urban societies?<\/p>\n

Applying an inter-disciplinary approach, modern history questions the legal frameworks imposed by countries, under which governments form, recognise or deny the existence of a legal community assigned to a religious, linguistic and\/or geographic identity. The establishment referred to as a \u201cnation\u201d can thus respond to the desire of a community – often an ethnic or religious minority or a group of foreigners – to guarantee the legal conditions of its existence. This status can also force ethnicised populations to get organised, to regulate themselves and to appoint representatives to associate them with the governing authorities of a city. However, most research remains dependent on a legal bias, which accentuates the community dimension of European cities in the early stages of globalisation. A multitude of players, working outside or between legally recognised communities thus remain in the shadows. Recent research offers new perspectives to allow better identification of how migrations have contributed to the constitution of the first global cities.<\/p>\n

Observing the European Cities of the 18th Century<\/h4>\n

One advantage of the European cities of the 18th century is that they are in the early stages of demographic growth, boosted by both natural increase and strong immigration. This growth results in new socio-professional, religious and linguistic groups, new social areas, and new modes of interaction and sociability, which come up against the structures of the \u201cold regime\u201d. Researchers have focussed on the cities of the southern Mediterranean region because of the volume and quality of the archives remaining, but it is important to point out that these are not specific cases that could support the existence of a unique Mediterranean model. Studies about Strasbourg, Turin and Vienna also reveal social dynamics similar to those observed in Livorno, Trieste, Venice and Smyrna during the same period(1)<\/sup><\/a>Hanna Sonkaj\u00e4rvi, Qu\u2019est-ce qu\u2019un \u00e9tranger ? Fronti\u00e8res et identifications \u00e0 Strasbourg (1681<\/i>\u2011<\/i>1789)<\/i>, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2008 ; Simona Cerutti, \u00c9trangers. \u00c9tude d\u2019une condition d\u2019incertitude dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime<\/i>, Bayard, 2012 ; David Do Pa\u00e7o, L\u2019Orient \u00e0 Vienne au dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle<\/i>, Voltaire Foundation, 2015.<\/span><\/span>