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Welcome to the City? Discursive and Administrative Dimensions of Hamburg’s Arrival Infrastructures Around 1900

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Based on discussions around the local dimension of migration policymaking, this chapter explores the normative-discursive and regulatory-administrative dimensions of the governmental arrival infrastructure in Hamburg, Germany, around the year 1900. It analyzes first, how “newcomers” were perceived in city-wide political discourse, and second, what institutions were established to organize their arrival in the urban society. Building on historical source analysis, the chapter demonstrates that, in the face of a massive increase in the number of Hamburg’s inhabitants, immigrants with German nationality were also assessed with a degree of skepticism. “Welcoming” various groups of newcomers was mainly the responsibility of the police. This chapter adds to urban arrival infrastructure research by arguing for a historical perspective on, and an analytical differentiation between, the infrastructures’ various dimensions.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a detailed definition of the two dimensions, see section “Linking (Urban) Migration Infrastructures, Citizenship, and Governance”.

  2. 2.

    Staatsarchiv Hamburg (hereafter StAHH) 614-1/68.

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    34 StAHH 332-8 B7, Leipziger?, 25/11/1907.

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    StAHH 332-8 B7, Hamburger Generalanzeiger, 03/04/1897.

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    In this regard, one famous literary source illustrating the reservations of Hamburg’s inhabitants about non-German migrants are the diaries of Emily Ruete, Princess Salme of Zanzibar (Ruete 1989).

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    44 StAHH 332-8 B56, Report 108, Paper 11 (16/12/1881).

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    StAHH 111-1 Clanis VII Lit. Bc No. 7b Facs. 74, printed matter from the senate for the parliament, 16/04/1894.

  8. 8.

    StAHH 332-8, Bd. 1: Registration: Strangers, servants and passport police (A1 to A29). Protocols, and card indexes 1833–1946.

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    StAHH 332-8 B56, Report 108, Paper 11 (16/12/1881).

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    StAHH 332-8 B56, Service regulations for the department IX (registration office) of the police authority Hamburg from 1st December 1903.

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    StAHH 332-8 B56, Service regulations for the department IX (registration office) of the police authority Hamburg from 1st December 1903.

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    Service regulations for the department II (criminal investigation) of the policy authority Hamburg from 1st May 1903.

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    Service regulations for department II (criminal investigation) of the policy authority Hamburg from 1st May 1903, 89.

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    StAHH 332-8 B7, Hamburger Freie Presse, 11/04/1895.

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Räuchle, C. (2019). Welcome to the City? Discursive and Administrative Dimensions of Hamburg’s Arrival Infrastructures Around 1900. In: Meeus, B., Arnaut, K., van Heur, B. (eds) Arrival Infrastructures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91167-0_2

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