Publication details
Suche nach Ordnung. Die Kontrolle der Migration in Österreich zur Zeit der Aufklärung
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Cornova : revue České společnosti pro výzkum 18. století a Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy v Praze |
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| Citation | |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | Austria; Enlightenment; Napoleonic Wars; Migration; Foreigners; Population Theory |
| Description | This study attempts to analyse the basic tendency of the Austrian state to regulate and control the move of inhabitants. The attitude of the state to foreigners determines their "utility for the state", which finally results in the establishment of categories of foreigners: privileged, facultative, and undesirable. Applying practical examples, the study specifies such classification of foreigners and of their destinies within the Austrian state. The privileged: The Netherlands textile specialists in the fine cloth factory in Náměšť near Brno; Turkish merchants and subjects of the High Porte of the Jewish religion; the facultative: the Netherlands state officers who, due to their loyalty to Austria, had to leave their homeland after the occupation of the Austrian Netherlands (later Belgium) by the French Republic; the undesirable: The French who were potentially suspected of propagation of revolution ideas or of espionage; here examples of the high French nobility have been specified, i.e. of the de Bombelles family and of dismissed high-ranking officers of the elite Prince de Condé Regiment (then in active service of Russia). |