Project description
Mediterranean cheap mass transportation in the steam age
The technological revolution enabled cheap mass transportation of people by steamships within the Mediterranean basin. The passengers were migrants – aiming to work in Europe or reach hub ports for transoceanic migration – refugees, deportees, pilgrims, or enslaved people. The MSCA-funded MedMaD project will study mass mobility in the broader Mediterranean, including the Black Sea and the Red Sea, between the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the beginning of the First World War in 1914. The project will examine the development of mass transport maritime services from a global perspective and analyse their impact on inter- and extra-Mediterranean mobilities and displacements of passengers travelling in low-cost classes.
Objective
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the technological revolution profoundly reshaped maritime transport, accelerating the circulation of passengers and allowing steamships to be used for the first time to move large masses of people across the sea cheaply. Alongside migrants crossing the sea to relocate within the Mediterranean basin or to reach hub ports for transoceanic migration, steamships teemed with masses of refugees, pilgrims, deportees, workers engaged in cyclical or occasional movements to access integrated labour markets and even enslaved people, often smuggled as ordinary passengers. In their movements, they all experienced varying degrees of freedom and coercion, determined by the vital interest of colonial empires and nascent nation-states in controlling and managing mass flows across the Mediterranean for political, economic and public health reasons. Once at sea, however, these heterogeneous masses were all forcibly united by a single carrier, the steamship, and the same status of passengers.
MedMaD proposes a novel approach to the study of mass mobility in the “wider Mediterranean”, including the Black Sea and the Red Sea, between the opening of the Suez Canal, in 1869, and the beginning of the First World War, in 1914. The project's overall objective is to examine from a global perspective the development of mass transport maritime services in the Mediterranean during the age of steam and analyse their impact on inter- and extra-Mediterranean mobilities and displacements of passengers travelling in low-cost classes (third- and fourth-class or deck passengers, as defined by the ticket).
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
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16126 GENOVA
Italy
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