nagonzalezq.bsky.social
Historian. Postdoctoral fellow at the History Department and Lab-Mundi of the University of São Paulo. Affiliated scholar of the Atlantic Exiles Project of the University of Tübingen. https://nicolasgonzalezquintero.weebly.com/
👤 Joined on 21 January 2025
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@nagonzalezq.bsky.social12/ Many thanks to all of our authors for their excellent contributions, and to Nicolás and Thomas for bringing them together as editors!
Show Post11/ Jan C. Jansen highlights the period around 1800 as a transformative moment in the conceptual history of refuge. As refugees moved across a shifting political map of empires and nation-states, the labels of asylum came to delineate not just protection and relief, but also status and belonging.
Show Post10/ @nagonzalezq.bsky.social discusses the question of return. Based on petitions from émigrés who had fled the Spanish American Revolutions, he shows how refugees purposefully appropriated an "émigré" label and appealed to notions of republican citizenship in order to be able to return to Colombia.
Show Post9/ @salmahargal.bsky.social traces the resettlement of Algerians fleeing French colonial rule in the Ottoman Empire. She highlights how the term "muhacir" became the centrepiece of a migration regime founded on refugee claims to imperial belonging and the renunciation of French subjecthood.
Show Post8/ @annikabaerwald.bsky.social examines attempts to escape from slavery in the port of Hamburg. In a striking parallel to other contributions, she showcases the connection between the treatment of refugees and efforts at mobility control, and how people of colour became its particular targets.
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