📢New Publication! Thrilled to announce that one key project publication is finally coming out: “Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of 'Exile', 'Asylum', and 'Refugee' during the 18th and 19th centuries” in Itinerario, edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social. See 🧵👇
First view of my article in an issue edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social on Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries doi.org/10.1017/S016...
¡Muchas gracias, Adriana!
By demonstrating that, Thomas shows how the establishment of aid policies towards émigrés was a twofold process in which both émigrés and local authorities strategically played their cards to achieve their goals.
@salmahargal.bsky.social, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, and myself.
particularly at a time when revolutionary upheavals were challenging imperial structures to their very core.
Please take a look at the contributions by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, Sibylle Fourcaud, @jkeindorf.bsky.social, @meganmaruschke.bsky.social, Jan C. Jansen, @annikabaerwald.bsky.social...
Each one of them demonstrates how refugees and local authorities both negotiated and clashed over the sets of rights, protections, and entitlements that émigrés sought in order to obtain aid and assistance during a period of extreme political instability. What it meant to be a refugee mattered,...
of the category, the ways which different actors, including refugees themselves, played a key role in shaping it, and the concrete implications of this process.
In recent weeks, Itinerario has been publishing the articles included in the special issue (with two contributions still forthcoming)...
Refugees played with ideas of loyalty and imperial belonging to do so, while local authorities trying to project an image of benevolence towards those who were escaping from the upheavals in Hispaniola.
As mentioned in the previous message, this wonderful article by @thomasmareite.bsky.social is part of our special issue in Itinerario. In it, Thomas shows how French refugees from the Haitian Revolutions negotiated their status to receive aid from Cuban authorities...
the Convention of Geneve (1951). But, in recent years, the literature has advanced by examining how this category evolved from the early modern period to the present. By centering on the Atlantic and Mediterranean spaces in the XVIII and XIX centuries, we seek to highlight the malleability...
I am glad to see that the introduction to our special issue has been published. In it, @thomasmareite.bsky.social and I seek to further historicize the category of “refugee.” Early historiography on this topic focused primarily on its modern definition as established by...
🗣️ New publication!
In this introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and I revisit the historiography on refugees and explore how the category of “refugee” (or its historical equivalent) was constructed in Atlantic and Mediterranean societies (18th–19th c.) ...
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IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History.
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Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.
Happy to see that Itinerario has started publishing articles from our special issue again! Please, check @salmahargal.bsky.social 's article on First View! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
PROGRAM 2026 LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ACTORS, CONCEPTS, AND PROBLEMS OF SCALE 10.04.2026 08.05.2026 05.06.2026 04.09.2026 02.10.2026 06.11.2026 04.12.2026 Sven Beckert (Harvard University): A Conversation with Sven Beckert: Capitalism in Latin American History Roy Hora (Universidad de San Andrés - Buenos Aires): Capitalism and Society in Argentina in the 19th and 20th Centuries Rossana Barragán (CIDES - UMSA - La Paz): The Empire of Work: History of the Social Production of Silver from Potosí for the World Pablo Pryluka (CUNY - New York): Markets, Consumers, and the Making of Developmental Capitalism in Postwar Latin America Constanza Castro (Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá): "En este puerto está el mundo". A Microhistory of Global Tobacco: Honda, Columbia, 1846 — 1880 Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania): "Tem que dar certo": Inflation and the Remaking of Brazilian Democracy John Tutino (Georgetown University): The Revolution that Remade Global
With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.
It is a great joy to share that the special issue “Memories in Transit” of the journal Memory Studies, co-edited by my dear María Eugenia Ulfe and me, has just been published.
We invite you to read it! 📚📖
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I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️
Excited my research is out here and freely accessible!! Thanks Itinerario and my excellent editors @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I share Bryan and Jan’s articles, which have already been published in Itinerario. I will post the other ones as soon as they are online.
The special issue has excellent contributions by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, @jkeindorf.bsky.social, Sibylle Fourcaud, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @meganmaruschke.bsky.social, @annikabaerwald.bsky.social , @salmahargal.bsky.social, and Jan C. Jansen.
Being considered an émigré or refugee mattered and had concrete implications on the lives of many expatriates who left their homelands because of the political upheavals of the period.
Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds. By reflecting on the concepts of exile, asylum, and refugee, the special issue examines how the crisis of empires and the mass displacement caused by the revolutions prompted authorities and exiles to negotiate the status, rights, and duties of newcomers.
the social bonds broken by the revolution and to laying the groundwork for national reconciliation.
This article is part of a special issue that @thomasmareite.bsky.social and I coedited on what it meant to be a refugee during the long Age of Revolutions, particularly in the Atlantic...