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oapen-20.500.12657-583672022-09-16T03:16:12Z Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Nauman, Sari Jezierski, Wojtek Reimann, Christina Runefelt, Leif Migrant crises Baltic Sea Inhospitality Xenophobia Strangers Refugees Missionaries Migration history Community Hostility Discrimination Host Intercultural Northern European history Spaces of hospitality Other Baltic Rim bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early eleventh century to the twentieth. The chapters investigate why and how diverse categories of strangers including migrants, war refugees, prisoners of war, merchants, missionaries and vagrants, were portrayed as threats to local populations or as objects of their charity, shedding light on the current predicament facing many European countries. Emphasizing the Baltic Sea region as a uniquely multi-layered space of intercultural encounter and conflict, this book demonstrates the significance of Northeastern Europe to migration history. 2022-09-15T20:13:45Z 2022-09-15T20:13:45Z 2022 book ONIX_20220915_9783030985271_21 9783030985271 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58367 eng Palgrave Studies in Migration History application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-98527-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-98527-1 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-98527-1 10.1007/978-3-030-98527-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 0396940b-b888-428b-bf60-4e3b23cbe2e9 9783030985271 Palgrave Macmillan 394 Cham [...] open access
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Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early eleventh century to the twentieth. The chapters investigate why and how diverse categories of strangers including migrants, war refugees, prisoners of war, merchants, missionaries and vagrants, were portrayed as threats to local populations or as objects of their charity, shedding light on the current predicament facing many European countries. Emphasizing the Baltic Sea region as a uniquely multi-layered space of intercultural encounter and conflict, this book demonstrates the significance of Northeastern Europe to migration history.
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