History of Migration, Labour Relations and Social Policy, c. 1500-1914
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Beschrijving van het project
Anne Winter (MA VUB 2001, MSc LSE 2002, PhD VUB 2007) is Professor of History and Director of the research team Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST) at the VUB. Her research deals with the social and economic history of the Low Countries in the early modern period and long nineteenth century in an internationally comparative perspective, with a focus on the interactions between migration, social policy, urbanization and labour relations. She supervises BA, MA and PhD research on the history of migration, social policy, urban society, labour relations, crime and policing from the sixteenth to the long nineteenth centuries. She is the author of Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860 (Pickering & Chatto, 2009), has (co-)edited several volumes in the field, including Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s (Routledge, 2018), Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s: Comparative Perspectives (Berghahn, 2013) and Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (Ashgate, 2012), and (co-)authored various chapters and journal articles, including in Past & Present, Economic History Review, Continuity and Change, International Review of Social History and Explorations in Economic History.
Researchers interested in an advanced project on the history of migration, social policy, labour relations and/or urban policing are welcome to discuss ideas in the context of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship submission. While her particular expertise lies within the history of North-Western Europe, she is particularly interested in research projects that aim to address long-term evolutions and/or explore diachronic or spatial comparisons and entanglements.
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Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST)
Established in 2005, the HOST research group conducts innovative research in the field of urban history, contributing to insights into contemporary societal challenges. Essential to our research is the historical role of cities as catalysts for processes of economic innovation, social exclusion and integration, and political-institutional change. Particular interests include the history of social inequality, migration and economic and social relations, as well as the interactions between these phenomena.
Our work focuses predominantly on the cities of Brabant and Flanders, two core regions of the Southern Low Countries characterized by high levels of urbanization, commercialization and early industrialization, and by a marked variation in urban structures and profound upswings and downswings in economic development. We study these regions from an international, comparative perspective, which allows us to establish the generality and particularity of the urban developments we observe. Our research covers the period from the later Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. This long-term perspective makes it possible to distinguish between the impact of long-term structural transformations and shorter-term conjunctural effects.
HOST has over twenty-five permanent members, including professors, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. Many of our staff are internationally acknowledged researchers with extensive publication records and involvements in both international and nationally-funded research projects. We welcome proposals for Marie Sklodowska Curie-Individual Fellowships from motivated candidates around the topics suggested on this page, but are also open to other ideas that fall within our areas of interest.
For more information, please visit https://host.research.vub.be/en