11/ Jan C. Jansen highlights the period around 1800 as a transformative moment in the conceptual history of refuge. As refugees moved across a shifting political map of empires and nation-states, the labels of asylum came to delineate not just protection and relief, but also status and belonging.

Elusive Refugees: Revisiting Terms of Exile and Asylum in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

Elusive Refugees: Revisiting Terms of Exile and Asylum in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Volume 50 Issue 2

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10/ @nagonzalezq.bsky.social discusses the question of return. Based on petitions from émigrés who had fled the Spanish American Revolutions, he shows how refugees purposefully appropriated an "émigré" label and appealed to notions of republican citizenship in order to be able to return to Colombia.

Returning to Colombia: The Category of Émigré in the Consolidation of Republican Regimes during the Age of Revolutions | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

Returning to Colombia: The Category of Émigré in the Consolidation of Republican Regimes during the Age of Revolutions - Volume 50 Issue 2

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9/ @salmahargal.bsky.social traces the resettlement of Algerians fleeing French colonial rule in the Ottoman Empire. She highlights how the term "muhacir" became the centrepiece of a migration regime founded on refugee claims to imperial belonging and the renunciation of French subjecthood.

Algerian Migration and the Formation of the Muhacir Status in the Ottoman Empire (1830–1908) | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

Algerian Migration and the Formation of the Muhacir Status in the Ottoman Empire (1830–1908) - Volume 50 Issue 2

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8/ @annikabaerwald.bsky.social examines attempts to escape from slavery in the port of Hamburg. In a striking parallel to other contributions, she showcases the connection between the treatment of refugees and efforts at mobility control, and how people of colour became its particular targets.

No Safe Haven: Fugitives from Slavery as Contested Refugees in Hamburg, 1770–1840 | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

No Safe Haven: Fugitives from Slavery as Contested Refugees in Hamburg, 1770–1840 - Volume 50 Issue 2

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7/ From the vantage point of Philadelphia, @meganmaruschke.bsky.social discusses how barriers to mobility, assistance, and the right to remain on the soil of the early United States developed in response to the arrival of refugees from the Haitian Revolution.

A “Distressed Class of People”: French Refugees and Mobility Control in Philadelphia, 1790s–1810 | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

A “Distressed Class of People”: French Refugees and Mobility Control in Philadelphia, 1790s–1810 - Volume 50 Issue 2

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6/ @thomasmareite.bsky.social analyses the governance of relief in Havana, Cuba. Putting the exile of French planters into dialogue with the displacement of Spanish settlers, he traces how relief revolved around imperial loyalty and subjecthood that crystallized in the category "emigrados".

A Benevolent Empire? Exile, Politics of Relief, and Subjecthood in Havana (1790–1810) | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

A Benevolent Empire? Exile, Politics of Relief, and Subjecthood in Havana (1790–1810) - Volume 50 Issue 2

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5/ @jkeindorf.bsky.social discusses refugees from the Haitian Revolution in neighboring British Jamaica. Colonial authorities sought to make sense of the people arriving by fitting them into supposedly clear-cut categories, but the process of registration was also actively influenced from below.

“Considering Him Not as a Prisoner, but as a Refugee”: The Categorisation of French Refugees in Jamaica during the Time of the Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars | Itinerario | Cambridge Co...

“Considering Him Not as a Prisoner, but as a Refugee”: The Categorisation of French Refugees in Jamaica during the Time of the Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars - Volume 50 Issue 2

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4/ Sibylle Fourcaud traces the evolution of relief distribution to "colons" displaced by the Haitian Revolution in the French metropole. While relief legislation initially encompassed all ranks of colonial society, the concept of "colons" eventually came to signify white property owners only.

The Nation and the Deserving Refugees: Granting Relief to the Saint-Dominguans in France, 1793-1802 | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

The Nation and the Deserving Refugees: Granting Relief to the Saint-Dominguans in France, 1793-1802 - Volume 50 Issue 2

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3/ @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social discusses the exodus of the French Huguenots as an antecedent to the modern concept of a "refugee crisis". He underscores how the Huguenots developed and appropriated a refugee identity for themselves that was not just religious, but also political in nature.

Inventing the Refugee Crisis: Huguenots and the Rise of Refugee Identity | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

Inventing the Refugee Crisis: Huguenots and the Rise of Refugee Identity - Volume 50 Issue 2

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2/ In their introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and @thomasmareite.bsky.social situate the contributions to the special issue within a "long Age of Revolutions" as a period of mass migration in which the reflection on and negotiation of the status of newcomers and their rights took center stage.

Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Introduction | Itinerario | Cambridge Core

Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Introduction - Volume 50 Issue 2

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📣Fresh from the press! The special issue "Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of 'Exile', 'Asylum' and 'Refugee' during the 18th and 19th Century" is now out in Itinerario, edited by team members @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social. See 🧵 for the individual contributions

Itinerario: Volume 50 - Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of ‘Exile’, ‘Asylum’, and ‘Refugee’ during the 18th and 19th Century | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Itinerario - Volume 50 - Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of ‘Exile’, ‘Asylum’, and ‘Refugee’ during the 18th and 19th Century

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I’m glad to see that our special issue, “Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of ‘Exile,’ ‘Asylum,’ and ‘Refugee’ during the 18th and 19th Centuries,” has finally been published in its entirety in the latest issue of Itinerario. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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De vuelta en Bogotá. Mi postdoc en Brasil terminó hace algunos meses y, ante una nueva oportunidad laboral para Nathalia, decidimos volver. No puedo sino estar muy agradecido con Brasil. Conocí lugares y personas maravillosas. Además, el postdoc fue una oportunidad fantástica.

@jkeindorf.bsky.social examine comment ces mêmes exilés de Saint-Domingue furent traités en Jamaïque dans les années 1790. Il montre notamment comment ces exilés cherchaient à être enregistrés sous la catégorie ("réfugiés", "prisonniers de guerre") la plus avantageuse selon les circonstances. 3/3

Sibylle analyse la gestion des secours aux réfugiés des colonies en France métropolitaine pendant la période révolutionnaire. Elle montre que la catégorie admin. de "colons de Saint-Domingue réfugiés en France", en constante redéfinition, fut de + en + restreinte aux propriétaires blancs de SD 2/3

Le numéro spécial dans la revue Itinerario que j'ai eu le bonheur de co-éditer avec @nagonzalezq.bsky.social est désormais entièrement disponible en "first view". Les deux derniers articles publiés sont signés Sibylle Fourcaud et @jkeindorf.bsky.social 1/3

📢New Publication! Thrilled to announce that one key project publication is finally coming out: “Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of 'Exile', 'Asylum', and 'Refugee' during the 18th and 19th centuries” in Itinerario, edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social. See 🧵👇

First view of my article in an issue edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social on Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries doi.org/10.1017/S016...

As mentioned in the previous message, this wonderful article by @thomasmareite.bsky.social is part of our special issue in Itinerario. In it, Thomas shows how French refugees from the Haitian Revolutions negotiated their status to receive aid from Cuban authorities...

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✍️ Happy to share the publication of this article. It examines the relief policies implemented in Cuba for Spanish subjects from Santo Domingo and former French colonists from Saint-Domingue who remained loyal to Spain, after Santo Domingo's cession to France (1795) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am glad to see that the introduction to our special issue has been published. In it, @thomasmareite.bsky.social and I seek to further historicize the category of “refugee.” Early historiography on this topic focused primarily on its modern definition as established by...

🗣️ New publication! In this introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and I revisit the historiography on refugees and explore how the category of “refugee” (or its historical equivalent) was constructed in Atlantic and Mediterranean societies (18th–19th c.) ... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

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With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.

It is a great joy to share that the special issue “Memories in Transit” of the journal Memory Studies, co-edited by my dear María Eugenia Ulfe and me, has just been published. We invite you to read it! 📚📖 journals.sagepub.com/toc/mss/curr...

Memory Studies - Volume 19, Number 1

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I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️

Excited my research is out here and freely accessible!! Thanks Itinerario and my excellent editors @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It is finally out! Happy to share that my article “Returning to Colombia: The Category of Émigré in the Consolidation of Republican Regimes during the Age of Revolutions” has been published by Itinerario in First View. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Este miércoles estaré debatiendo el nuevo libro de Nathan Perl-Rosenthal con @oscarszarate.bsky.social y @franmackandal.bsky.social. Si tienen tiempo, los esperamos este miércoles en Youtube. ¡Gracias al Centro de Estudios Históricos del Colmex por la invitación!

Vamos ministrar este curso de História Política e Social da Colômbia com Nathalia Sandoval, José Bento de Oliveira Camassa e Juan Francisco Beltrán. A ideia foi de José Bento, a quem agradeço profundamente.

🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra “The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)” 📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH

The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833) | The Americas | Cambridge Core

The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833) - Volume 81 Issue 3

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