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Refugees have existed since ancient times, but it was in the early modern era that they were first recognized as a social category. This open access book maps the invention of the refugee and uncovers their impact on local, regional, and transnational politics. With case studies ranging from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Basin, Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe traces how refugees transformed the European continent. Topics explored include: the discursive strategies of exiles to distinguish themselves from other migrants; the role of displaced people in forging humanitarian networks; and the agency of religious minorities in migration management and imperialism. Moving beyond common images of refugees as passive victims of repression, this collection of essays shines a spotlight on the political interplay between displaced people, persecuting authorities, transnational support groups, and receiving societies – drawing a fuller picture of the many decision-making processes that determined the lives of newcomers and their hosts. The result is a sophisticated comparative study of mobility, identity, power, and politics, which will be vital reading to all scholars of migration history. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

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This book provides a fantastic overview of the history of different refugee groups in the early modern period. The authors shed light on numerous aspects of the topic which have been long-overlooked and demonstrate the impact that refugees made on the political, religious, and social history of the early modern world, * Thomas Pert, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, University of Warwick, UK *

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David de Boer is Assistant Professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism (2023). He is co-editor of Rebellion and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (2023) and Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery (2021). Geert H. Janssen is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of The Dutch Revolt and Catholic Exile in Reformation Europe (2014) and Princely Power in the Dutch Republic: Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613-64) (2008). He also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (2018) and The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (2013).

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