Features papers written by leaders in their respective fields in order to give a comprehensive view of a discussion spanning large distances both geographically and chronologically. Explores concepts of belonging and welfare from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

List of Tables List of Figures Introduction: Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1600-1950: Structures, Negotiations and Experiences Joanna Innes, Steven King and Anne Winter Chapter 1. Settlement and the Law in the Seventeenth Century David Feldman Chapter 2. Double Deterrence: Settlement and Practice in London’s West End, 1725–1824 Jeremy Boulton Chapter 3. Poor Relief, Settlement and Belonging in England 1780s to 1840s Steven King Chapter 4. Memories of Pauperism Jane Humphries Chapter 5. Belonging, Settlement and the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1870s–1900s Elizabeth Hurren Chapter 6. Citizens But Not Belonging: Migrants’ Difficulties in Obtaining Entitlement to Relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the Early Twentieth Century Anne-Lise Head-König Chapter 7. Overrun by Hungry Hordes? Migration and Poor Relief in the Netherlands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries Marco H.D. van Leeuwen Chapter 8. Agrarian Change, Labour Organization and Welfare Entitlements in the North-Sea Area, c. 1650-1800 Thijs Lambrecht Chapter 9. Settlement Law and Rural-Urban Relief Transfers in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: A Case Study on Migrants’ Access to Relief in Antwerp Anne Winter Chapter 10. Trajectories of German Settlement Regulations: The Prussian Rhine Province, 1815–1914 Andreas Gestrich Afterward: National Citizenship and Migrants’ Social Rights in Twentieth-Century Europe Paul-André Rosental Notes on Contributors Bibliography