Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?

This article looks into practices of refugee protection in the context of the heavy persecutions and mass exodus of Huguenots in the 1680s. In revisiting Huguenot petitions addressed to Protestant princes in Europe and princely edicts offering protection to newly arriving migrants, we will try to di...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Susanne Lachenicht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2023-07-01
Series:Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/12301
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This article looks into practices of refugee protection in the context of the heavy persecutions and mass exodus of Huguenots in the 1680s. In revisiting Huguenot petitions addressed to Protestant princes in Europe and princely edicts offering protection to newly arriving migrants, we will try to discern some patterns in refugee protection and their origins in other legal practices of the period.
ISSN:1637-5823
2431-1472