{"title":"Enterprising Émigrés of the Channel Islands","authors":"S. Watts","doi":"10.3167/hrrh.2022.480303","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"During the French Revolution, thousands of French refugees migrated through the Channel borderlands. At least four thousand settled there. The Channel Island of Jersey served as the loci of migration where economic life operated under “refugeedom,” a polity both apart from and particular to state authority. Refugeedom—in its alterity—suggests a matrix of economic conditions, legal codes, and social relations that can explain the lives of people in the French Revolution’s emigration. This study of economic migration offers a way to reframe the French emigration as opportunism and resilience. Refugeedom serves as the analytic framework to understand economic migration, not only as a political crisis of displaced people in the midst of revolution—those seeking refuge from war, persecution, famine, and other hardships—but also as part of a strategy of survival, one that includes the economic migration of labor.","PeriodicalId":43992,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS-REFLEXIONS HISTORIQUES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS-REFLEXIONS HISTORIQUES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2022.480303","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
During the French Revolution, thousands of French refugees migrated through the Channel borderlands. At least four thousand settled there. The Channel Island of Jersey served as the loci of migration where economic life operated under “refugeedom,” a polity both apart from and particular to state authority. Refugeedom—in its alterity—suggests a matrix of economic conditions, legal codes, and social relations that can explain the lives of people in the French Revolution’s emigration. This study of economic migration offers a way to reframe the French emigration as opportunism and resilience. Refugeedom serves as the analytic framework to understand economic migration, not only as a political crisis of displaced people in the midst of revolution—those seeking refuge from war, persecution, famine, and other hardships—but also as part of a strategy of survival, one that includes the economic migration of labor.
在法国大革命期间，成千上万的法国难民通过英吉利海峡边境迁移。至少有四千人在那里定居。泽西海峡岛(Channel Island of Jersey)是移民的聚集地，经济生活在“难民”制度下运作，这是一种既独立于国家权力又特别于国家权力的政体。从另一个角度来看，“难民”暗示了一个经济条件、法律法规和社会关系的矩阵，可以解释法国大革命时期移民者的生活。对经济移民的研究提供了一种将法国移民重新定义为机会主义和适应力的方法。难民是理解经济移民的分析框架，它不仅是革命中流离失所的人们的政治危机——那些为了躲避战争、迫害、饥荒和其他苦难而寻求庇护的人——而且是生存战略的一部分，其中包括劳动力的经济移民。
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