 Tracing Migrations Within Urban Spaces: Women’s Mobility and Identification Practices in Venice (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)Teresa Bernardi ()
Chapter Chapter 2 in Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective, 2022, pp 39-81 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The chapter deals with the relationship between the process of identification and women’s mobility. In particular, it explores when and how migrant women were identified in early modern Venice. A gendered approach and the intersection of different types of sources—administrative records and legal proceedings—enable to call into question some historiographical assumptions about identification: the equivalence of identification and coercion, the monopoly of the government in recording and classifying people, the replacement of orality (in terms of reputation and social networks) by written documents. The first part of the chapter focuses on legislation concerning the registration of foreigners, and it discusses the presence or absence of women in this type of documentation. The second and third parts analyze some case studies, focusing mainly on the role of the social actors, especially on the way they used identification to obtain economic resources or claim local membership. Keywords: Mobility; Migration; Identification; Gender; Distance; Residence (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-99554-6_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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