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A Blind Spot: Migratory and Travelling Groups in Western European Historiography*

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Leo Lucassen
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International Review of Social History , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 1993 , pp. 209 - 235
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8. An influential study in the 1930s was: Ritter, Robert, Ein Menschenschlag. Erba'rztliche und erbgeschichtliche Untersuchungen tiber die - dutch 10 Geschlechterfolgen erforschten - Nachkommen von “Vagabunden, Jaunern und Ra'ubem” (Leipzig, 1937). See alsoGoogle ScholarFinger, Otto, Studien an zwei asozialen Zigeuner-Mischlingsippen; ein Beitrag zur Asozialen-und Zigeunerfrage (Giessen, 1937)Google Scholar. For an overview of German publications on “gypsies” from a criminalistic point of view: Ruch, Martin, Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der deutschtsprachigen “Zigeunerforschung” von den Anfa'ngen bis 1900 (Ph.D., Freiburg, 1986), pp. 489–498Google Scholar.

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12. Arnold refers in the first place to Rittcr's book on anti-socials (Ein Menschenschlag) in which an outright racist theory is put forward. Only recently have the racist views of Arnold been sharply attacked, especially by scholars specialized in the history of gypsy-persecution in Germany: Michael Winter, “KontinuitSten in der deutschen Zigeunerforschung und Zigeuncrpolitik”, in Ayass, W.et al., Feinderklaärung und Prävention. Kriminalbiologie, Zigeunerforschung und Asozialenpolitik. Beiträge zur Nationalsozialistisdien Gesundheits und Sozialpolitik, Vol. 6 (Berlin, 1988), pp. 135–152Google Scholar. See also Zimmermann, Michael, Verfolgt, vertrieben, vernichtet. Die nationalsozialistische Vernichtungspolitik gegen Sinti und Roma (Essen, 1989), pp. 25–32Google Scholar; and Berbüsse, Volker, “Das Bild der Zigeuner' in deutschsprachigen kriminologischen Lehrbuchern seit 1949. Eine erste Bestandsaufnahme”, Jahrbuch des Zentrums filr Antisemitismitsforschung, Vol. 1 (Berlin, 1992), pp. 117–151Google Scholar.

13. To be defined as the way of thinking that stresses the importance of biological and hereditary traits to explain negative social behaviour. This regards not only so-called races, but also social groups such as causal workers or “anti-socials” whose behaviour is considered as a product of hereditary traits.

14. “Krankheit des Volkskörpers” (Vaganten, Komödianten, Fieranten und Briganten, p. 2).

15. Ibid., p. 33.

16. See, for example, his influence on Evans, R. J., “Introduction: the 'Dangerous Gasscs in Germany from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century”, in Evans, (ed.), The German Underworld. Deviants in German History (London etc., 1988), pp. 1–28. Evans mentions four books of Arnold as serious sources without any critical comment (note 3 on p. 20). See in this respect alsoGoogle ScholarDoege, Michael, Armut in Preussen und Bayern (1770–1840) (Munich, 1991), p. 115Google Scholar. Even more remarkable is the unquestioning reference to Rittcr's Ein Mensch-enschlag by Endres, R.: “Das Armcnproblcm im Zcitaltcr des Absolutismus”, in Kopitzsch, F. (ed.), Aufklärung, Absolutismus und Bürgertum in Deutschland (Munich, 1976), pp. 220–244, csp. p. 229. One of the few professional historians who explicitly criticizes Arnold is Danker (Rauberbanden, p. 4). See in this respect also Berbüsse, “Das Bild 'der Zigeuner” \ and Carsten KUther (note 20)Google Scholar.

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20. See, for example, the reviews of his book of 1976 in the Journal of Social History, 12 (1978–79), no. 4, pp. 648–649 (by J. F. Wagner) and in the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 27 (1980), pp. 331–332 (by H. J. Lüsebrink). His book of 1983 (Menschen auf der Strasse. Vagierende Unterscltichten in Bayern, Franken und Schwaben in der zweiten Ha'lfte des 18. Jahrhunderts (Göttingen, 1983)) was favourably reviewed in Vierteljahrshefte fttr SoziaUund Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 71 (1984), pp. 407–408 (by K. Fuchs) and the Zeitschrift far historische Forschung, 13 (1986), pp. 374–375 (by U.-C. Pallach).

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28 Danker, Räuberbanden; Finzsch, N., Obrigkeit und Unterschichten. Zur Geschichte der rheinischen Unterschichten gegen Ende des 18. und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart, 1990); and Peter Nitschke, Verbrechensbekämpfung und Verwaltung. Die Entstehung der PolU zei in der Grafschafi Lippe, 1700–1814 (Münster etc., 1990)Google Scholar.

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30. See in this context the works of Ribton-Turner, A History of Vagrants and Aydelotte, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds. To show the strength of this approach, see also the more recent book of Salgado, G., The Elizabethan Underworld (London, 1977)Google Scholar. A more elaborate list can be found in Beier, A. L., Masterless Men. The Vagrancy Problem in England 1560–1640 (London etc., 1985)Google Scholar.

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33. Beier, , “Vagrants and the Social Order”, an elaboration of which article was published in 1985 (Masterless Men)Google Scholar;Slack, P. A., “Vagrants and Vagrancy in England 1598–1664”, in Gark, Peter and Souden, David (eds.), Migration and Society in Early Modern England (London, 1987), pp. 49–76Google Scholar. Slack's, article was published earlier in Economic History Review 2nd series, 27 (1974), pp. 360–379Google Scholar. See also Clark, Peter, “The Migrant in Kentish Towns 1580–1640”, in Clark, P. and Slack, P. (eds.), Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500–1700. Essays in Urban History (London, 1972), pp. 117–163Google Scholar.

33. Pound, J., Poverty and Vagrancy in Tudor England (London, 1971)Google Scholar. See also the debate with Beier, in Past & Present, 71 (1976), pp. 126–129 and 130–134CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

34. His study of 1974 is based on an analysis of the arrests of 1,159 vagrants in various English counties in the period 1560–1640.

35. Clark, “The Migrant in Kentish Towns”. He propounded a difference between “betterment” and “subsistence” migration (p. 149), the latter being regarded as a symptom of poverty and typical for vagrants, especially when they travel in family groups.

36. See on this point the review of Bcicr's book of 1985 (Masterless Men) by Underdown, D., Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18 (1987), no. 2, pp. 353–355CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Underdown justly argues that the difference between “vagrants”, “migrants” and “masterless people” remains much too vague. See also the critical remarks in the review article of Boulton, J., “The Counting of the People and the People that Counted”, The Historical Journal, 31 (1990), no. 3, pp. 713–719, esp. pp. 718–719CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

37. Beier, Masterless Men, p. 90.

38 See for the Netherlands, for example, the works of Kappen, Olav van, Geschiedcnis der zigeuners in Nederland (Assen, 1965) andGoogle ScholarEerenbeemt, H. F. J. M. van den, In het spanningsvetd der armoede (Tilburg, 1968)Google Scholar; idem, Van mensenjacht en overheidsmacht (Tilburg, 1970). For France, P. Dartiguenave et al. , Marginalité, déviance, pauvreté en France XlVeXIX siécles (Caen, 1981, Cahier des Annalcs de Normandie, no. 13)Google Scholar. Geremek, Bronislaw, “Criminaiité, vagabondage, paupérisme: la marginalité à I'aube des temps modernes”, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 21 (07–09 1974), pp. 337–375CrossRefGoogle Scholar; idem, Les Marginaux Parisiens aux XIV et XVe siècle (Paris, 1976); idem, Truands et miserables dans I'Europe moderne (1350–1600) (Paris, 1980); idem, Les Fils de Caïn. L'image des pauvres et des vagabonds dans la littérature européenne du XVe au XVHe siècle (Paris, 1991).

40. Depauw, J., “Pauvres, pauvres mendiants, mendiants valides ou vagabonds? Les hésitations de la législation royale”, Revue d'histoire modeme et contemporaine, 21 (07–09 1974), pp. 401–418CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See for this also Lis, Catharina and Soly, Hugo, Poverty and Capitalism in Pre-Industrial Europe (Hassocks, 1979), pp. 80–96Google Scholar.

41. Based on the sociologists Vexliard and Merton. It is remarkable, though, that Vexliard, Alexandre (Introduction à la sociologie du vagabondage (Paris, 1956)) states that wandering or migration is not decisive for becoming a vagrant: “Dès lors, l'errance, la migration, ne sont pas des notions essentielles dans la définition du vagabond, malgré l'étymologic” (p.18)Google Scholar.

42. See, for example, Goff, Jacques le, “Les Marginaux dans l'occidcnt médiéval”, in Les Marginaux et les exclus dans Vhistoire (Paris, 1979, Cahiers Jussicu), pp. 19–28Google Scholar, who points to the state and the church as responsible for the growth of marginal groups. See also Chaunu, P. (ed.), Marginalité, déviance, pauvretien France XlVe-XIXe siècles (Paris, 1981)Google Scholar and Agulhon, M. (ed.), Les Marginaux et les autres (Paris, 1990)Google Scholar. Recently the stigmatization concept was used by Moore, R. I. in explaining the persecution of heretics, Jews and lepers in the Middle Ages (The Formation of a Persecution Society (Oxford, 1987))Google Scholar.

43. Graus, F., “Randgruppen der städtischen Gescllschaft im Spätmittelalter”, Zeitschrift für historische Forschung, 8 (1981), no. 4, pp. 385–437Google Scholar.

44. These groups are assumed to be different in the first place by their origin, but the most important explanation for their marginal position is the fact that they want to be different, by their religion and nomadic way of life. Thus, according to Graus (who is on one line with Geremek), they placed themselves outside the regular society. The stigmatization and marginalization, however blameworthy they are, are only a reaction to this deviant behaviour (Graus, “Randgruppen der städtischen Gescllschaft”, p. 398). See in this respect also Jütte, Robert, Abbild und soziale Wirklichkeit des Bettler-und Gaunertums zu Beginn der Neuzeit. Sozial-, mentalitäts- und sprachgeschichtliche Studien zum Liber Vagatorum (1510) (Cologne etc., 1988), pp. 28–34Google Scholar, and Bochncke, Heiner and Johannsmeier, Rolf (eds.), Das Buch der Vaganten. Spieler, Huren, Leutbetrüger (Cologne, 1987)Google Scholar.

45 He criticizes in this respect the classfication of Th. Fischer, who put the dishonest professions and work-shy anti-socials at the bottom: Fischer, Th., Stüdtische Annul und Armenfürsorge im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 1978), pp. 82–91Google Scholar.

46 Hufton, Olwen, The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750–1789 (Oxford, 1974), pp. 71, 83–102 and 120Google Scholar. See also Hufton, “Begging, Vagrancy, Vagabondage, and the Law”, pp. lOOff. A similar description can be found in Braudel, Fernand, La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à I'époque de Philippe II, 2 vols. (Paris, 1976), II, pp. 80–83Google Scholar. His explanation (“cette silencieuse et épouvantable armée des prolétaircs”, p. 83) fits well in the poverty interpretation.

47. Jean-Pierre Gutton, L'Etat et la mendicitè dans la première moitié du XVllle siècle. Auvergne, Beaujolais, Forez, Lyonnais (n.p., 1973), p. 21. This book is largely based on his Ph.D. thesis, “La Société ct les pauvrcs. L'exemple de la généralité de Lyon 1534–1789” (Lyon, 1971). Schwartz, R. M., Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France (Chapel Hill etc., 1988)Google Scholar.

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50. Ibid p. 198. This is supported by the analysis of the relationship between marginality and migration in the recent study of Moch, Leslie Page, Moving Europeans. Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, 1992), pp. 88–93Google Scholar.

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54. Lis and Soly, Poverty and Capitalism, pp. 79 and 188–190. Their interpretation of the functions of migration is based on the work of Hufton (The Poor), among others.

55. Many of them were not involved in wage-labour, at least not systematically, but were “penny capitalists”. See for this concept Benson, John, The Penny Capitalists. A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Entrepreneurs (Dublin, 1983)Google Scholar.

56. Some German authors go even further and, without giving any proof, argue that travelling groups indeed resisted the new work discipline. See for this also Nitschke, Verbrechensbekämpfung und Venvaltung, p. 42, and Danker, Raüuberbanden, p. 431. The latter argues that travelling groups resisted modernization because they had the greatest trouble accepting a work discipline opposed to their lifestyle.

57. Lis, Catharina, Soly, Hugo and Damme, Dirk van, Op vrije voeten? Sociale politick in West-Europa (1450–1914) (Leuven, 1985), p. 84. A balanced approach is also offered byGoogle ScholarReif, H., “Vagierende Unterschichten, Vagabunden und BandenkriminalitSt im Anden Rdgime”, Beiträge zur Historischen Sozialkunde (1981), pp. 27–37, and by Schubert, “Mobilitat ohne Chance”, pp. 128–129 and 138–143Google Scholar.

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60 Lucassen, Jan, Migrant Labour in Europe between 1600 and 1900. The Drift to the North Sea (London etc., 1987)Google Scholar. An important earlier study on this subject is: Chatelain, Abel, Les Migrants temporaires en France de 1800 á 1914, 2 vols. (Lille, 1976)Google Scholar. More recently this topic was enriched by the study of Ponchelet, Danifele, Ouvriers nomades et patrons briards. Les grandes exploitations agricoles dans la Brie 1848–1938 (Paris, 1987)Google Scholar.

61. Lucassen, Migrant Labour, pp. 88–92. Spufford came to a comparable conclusion in her book on petty chapmen in seventeenth-century England: Spufford, Margaret, The Great Reclothing of Rural England. Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth-Century (London, 1984), pp. 14–31Google Scholar. See also Spufford, , Small Books and Pleasant Histories. Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England (London, 1981)Google Scholar.

62. See, for example, Lucassen, Migrant Labour; Jan Lucassen, “Dutch Long Distance Migration. A Concise History 1600–1900” (Research paper no. 3 of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, 1991); and Moch, Moving Europeans For the industrial period, See Bade, Klaus J. (ed.), Population, Labour and Migration in 19th-and 20th-century Germany (Leamington etc., 1987)Google Scholar.

63. Charles Tilly, “Cities and Immigration in North America” (working paper no. 88, September 1989, New School for Social Research, New York), p. 1.

64 Georg Fertig, “Migration from the German-Speaking Parts of Central Europe, 1600–1800: Estimates and Explanations” (working paper no. 38/1991 of the John F. Kcnnedy-Institut filr Nordamcrikastudicn, Berlin, 1991), p. 4.

65. The analyses of Jan Lucassen and Georg Fertig are part of a more general change in the interpretation of migration. See in this respect also Clark, Peter and Souden, David (cds.), Migration and Society in Early Modern England (London, 1987)Google Scholar; Tilly, “Cities and Immigration in North America”; and Green, Nancy L., “L'Histoire comparative et le champ des éludes migratoires”, Annales ESC (09–12 1990), no. 6, pp. 1135–1350Google Scholar.

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71. This also applies to Belgium and England: Jaumain, Serge, “Un métier oublié: le colporteur beige au XIXe siècle”, Revue Beige d'histoire contemporaine, 16 (1985), pp. 361–408Google Scholar, esp. p. 330; Alexander, Retailing in England, pp. 82ff.; Benson, The Penny Capitalists, p. 102.

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74. See Jaumain, “Un méticr oublié”, pp. 315 and 331: “Les clichés chers aux petits commercants n'épargnent done pas l'administrateur de la Sūreté publique et la conduisent à proposer des mesures très sévères à l'égard de I'ensemble des colporteurs élrangers, comme si 1e simple fait de ne pas appartenir à la communauté beige constituait un indice de malhonnfite” et de délinquancc” (p. 331).

75. Alexander, Retailing in England, p. 67.

76. Chatelain, “Lulte entre colporteurs et boutiquiers”, p. 371.

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80. For a short review of this historiography, see Lucassen, En men noemde hen zigeuners, pp. 12–14, and Cottaar et al., “Justice or Injustice?”

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86. Demetz, Hausierhandel, Hausindustrie und Kunsihandel A similar source are the registers of “labour booklets” (“livrets”) used by Chatelain (“Lutte entre colporteurs et boutiquiers”, p. 361).

87. “Legitimationsschcin” in the act of 1869, “Wandergewerbeschcin” in the amendment of 1 July 1883 (Georg Meyer, “Die Gewerbegesetzgebung in den einzelnen Staaten”, in Conrad, J. et al. (eds.), Handwdrterbuch der Staatswissenschaften (Jena, 1990), pp. 412–440, esp. p. 429Google Scholar.

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89. This source is at the moment being used by Annemarie Cottaar in her research into the history of Dutch caravan dwellers. See also Cottaar et al., “Justice or Injustice”

90. Chatelain, Les Migrants temporaires, and Lucassen, Migrant Labour

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93. See, among others, Chatelain, “Luttc entre colporteurs ct boutiquiers”, p. 361; Darmon, Le Colportage de librairie, p. 41; Lucassen, Migrant Labour, p. 291, note 121; and Dahl, 'Travelling Pedlars”, p. 170. The value of population and foreigners' registers is illustrated by Van Tiggelen in his study on itinerant organ grinders in nineteenth-century Brussels (Musiciens ambulants et joueurs d'orgue, pp. 38–39 and 54–55). A fruitful combination of foreigners and population registers can be found in De Schacpdrijver, Elites for the Capital?, pp. 120 and 136–164.

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98. Lucassen, En men noemde hen zigeuners.

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