Project description
The role of refugees in political and societal transformation
The period between the 1770s and 1820s in the Americas and Europe is marked as the 'age of revolutions' and is characterised by the introduction of the new notions of sovereignty and citizenship. The upheavals of this period are also associated with the rise of the mass phenomenon of political refugees that saw over a quarter million persons moving towards the Atlantic basin driven by political conflicts. The EU-funded AtlanticExiles project intends to demonstrate that political refugees and their movements were at the core of fundamental transformations in the Atlantic world concerning citizenship and subjecthood, welfare practices, freedom, slavery as well as the emergence of transnational exile politics.The project will focus on the interactions between refugees and the receiving societies.
Objective
This project explores movements and networks of refugees and exiles of the revolutions in the Americas and Europe (1770s–1820s). Political modernity, brought about by the “age of revolutions” and often identified with new notions of sovereignty and citizenship, was intertwined with the emergence of the political refugee as a mass phenomenon. Unprecedented numbers of people—in total, well over a quarter million—sought refuge in countries other than their own on primarily political, rather than religious, grounds. The project sets out to show that political migrants and refugee movements were at the very core of major transformations that the Atlantic world underwent during these momentous decades. These include the reshaping of citizenship and subjecthood regimes, changing practices of welfare and early humanitarianism, the porous and shifting boundaries between freedom and slavery, and the emergence of transnational exile politics.
While there is growing consensus that revolutionary ideas and actors in the Atlantic basin can no longer be studied in isolation, those who opposed and fled these revolutions have received strikingly less attention. Focusing on the interactions between refugees and receiving societies in a variety of contexts, Atlantic Exiles breaks new ground on two interlocking levels of inquiry: It recasts the Caribbean as one of the world’s major receiving and transit region for refugees during this period and it provides the first systematic exploration of exile and refugee movements in a decidedly Atlantic perspective. In addition, it sets the findings from the Atlantic world into a long-term and global history context. Based on multi-site and multi-linguistic research and the close engagement with records in the Caribbean, the project opens up new avenues for the study of both Atlantic and refugee history.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- social sciences law human rights human rights violations human trafficking
- social sciences political sciences political transitions revolutions
- social sciences sociology demography human migrations
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
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