Abstract
Migration caused a lot of turmoil in recent years. Large numbers of people have travelled to Europe in search of a better life. Governments have fallen and political parties have risen or crashed based on their policies concerning these “migration crises”. But how exceptional are these migration trends when placed in a historical perspective? As the subject of migration proves to be one that is to stay on the political agenda, professionals better have the right numbers to construe the policies that will make up the future of the continent. More so, a historic understanding of migration, how migration now differs or resembles past migration, is crucial to put current movements of people into perspective.
Highlights
Migration caused a lot of turmoil in recent years
In 2015, the Belgian State Archives entered into a partnership with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universiteit Antwerpen (UA) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) for the IMMIBEL-project
The project investigates the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of interactions of foreign nationals with different layers of Belgian society. This part of the project was in the hands of the different university partners who used the database to study three subgroups in foreign migration: (1) undesirable migrants that got confronted with repressive public policies (VUB); (2) seafarers working in an internationalized labour market segment (UA); and (3) engineers as ‘actors of knowledge’ spreading new ideas and technologies at the start of the second industrial revolution (ULB). 1
Summary
FACTSHEET Subject: Database of index cards of the Belgian Aliens’ Police Author: Sarah Heynssens Promotors: Dr Bart Willems (Belgian State Archives), Prof. Dr Anne Winter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Prof. Dr Hilde Greefs (Universiteit Antwerpen) & Prof. Dr Kenneth Bertrams (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Institution: Belgian State Archives Funded by: Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) – BRAIN programme Date of publication: April 2018 Period: 1832-1889 Region: World Number of units: 151.857 Number of variables: 18 Consultation: free consultation via the Search Persons search engine of the Belgian State Archives Link: https://search.arch.be/en/zoeken-naar-personen/projecten/ 678-immibel-en
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