Torsten Feys
Biographic Data
| ID | 4458534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torsten Feys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Feys |
| SIGNATURE | FEYS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9385-0906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A rural-urban divide? Guest registers and migration control in Belgium 1840–1914
Introduction – Controlling mobile guests where they rest. Comparative perspectives on hotel registration in Europe, 1840s–1930s
Migration et transit transatlantique
Par terre ou par mer ? L’expulsion des citoyens venus d’outre-Atlantique depuis la Belgique vers 1900
International audience
Deportation at all costs? Adapting US migration policies to the First World War
From queen of seaside resorts to expulsion corridor
International migration and tourism developed into cornerstones of modern societies and have many common features: they generally pass through the same routes, are served and controlled by similar actors, and often depend on each other as for instance with the prevalence of migrant labour in the tourism industry. Despite these entanglements which sometimes blur the lines between tourists and migrants, there has been very little scholarly attentio…
The Business of Relocating Stranded Americans and Belgian Refugees during the First World War
This article provides a business perspective of the role of transport companies in directing transatlantic refugees during the First World War. It details the financial, administrative and logistical barriers that stranded Americans faced at the outbreak of the war. It discusses how authorities, NGO s and especially shipping companies organised the transportation of approximately 150,000 people in a matter of weeks along the well-oiled business n…
International railroads and human mobility controls at the Franco-Belgian border (1840s-1860s)
L’article analyse l’impact de l’inauguration des réseaux de chemins de fer internationaux sur les contrôles transfrontaliers de la mobilité humaine à la frontière franco-belge. Il remet en question l’idée préconçue que ces réseaux mettaient un terme aux contrôles. Au contraire, cette recherche démontre que la Sûreté publique continuait à s’appuyer sur ces contrôles frontaliers, alors qu’elle développait des mesures d’observation des étrangers à l…
Riding the rails of removal
Nineteenth-century Belgian authorities liked to consider themselves as liberal towards migrants, but the 340,000 expulsions carried out between 1835 and 1913 paint a different picture. This article assesses how the development of Belgian railway networks influenced controls of entry and expulsion practices through seven borderland hubs with international rail connections. It first details how control stations followed changes in transport infrast…
America’s first ‘refugee’ crisis’
In the early twentieth century, millions of passengers crossed the North Atlantic. The vast majority were migrants relocating to North America or returning to Europe; less known is the growing number of tourists comprising predominantly of affluent Americans heading for Europe. Organising this vast passenger traffic was a sophisticated and self-regulated passenger business dominated by British and German companies and organised in ‘shipping confe…
The Battle for the Migrants
Between the Public and the State
Based on Freeman's model of interest group-driven migration policies, the article gives a qualitative inside look on a neglected actor during the formative years of US immigration reform. It analyzes the central role of the shipping companies in coordinating the pro-immigration campaign with and against other interest groups. Their lobbying is divided into two complementary sections: inside top-down efforts (lobbyists) to influence legislators an…
Transience, Overseas Migration and the Modern European City. Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Cities and Overseas Migration in the Long Nineteenth Century’
Migration is one of key factors to the existence of which we owe the emergence of the modern urban condition that continues to shape the life of large populations today. Precisely the same reasons that generated great urban growth of European cities in the late nineteenth century were responsible for concurrent mass migration overseas – to North America and elsewhere – for a number of reasons. Given the everyday experience of the mass of transien…
Borders and Frontiers in Global and Transnational History. Introduction
In the last 25 years or so, global and transnational history have grown into an incontrovertible research agenda, investigating how all sorts of circulations, entanglements, and connections shaped modern history. At the same time, this research agenda has been criticized for underestimating the study of historically important formations such as the nation-state, Europe, or world systems—which persist despite a cavalcade of connections piercing th…
Bounding Mass Migration across the Atlantic
Bounding Mass Migration across the Atlantic: European Shipping Companies between US Border Building and Evasion (1860s–1920s) This article questions the assumption that the rhetoric, laws and border controls to restrict immigration into the United States originated on the Pacific border to exclude Asians and were later transferred to the Atlantic border to limit European migration. To demonstrate that two separate immigration regimes had develope…
Steamshipping Companies and Transmigration Patterns
The article gives a business perspective on the development of transit routes during the long nineteenth century transatlantic migration from Europe to the us . It first stresses that due to the economic interests generated by transatlantic migrant transport the political economy behind early migration policies centred much more on how people moved rather than who was doing the moving. These had a lasting impact on transit routes. With nationalis…
Transoceanic Shipping, Mass Migration, and the Rise of Modern-Day International Border Controls
The importance of passenger transport companies to facilitating mass migration have generally been acknowledged. Their paradoxal role as obstructers of the same, being an integral part of our modern day border enforcement system, has received much less attention. This article analyses the use of transport companies by states to monitor and restrict migration. It focuses on the recent historiography of the role of shipping companies in regulating …
Drew Keeling, The Business of Tranatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Ton de Graaf, Voor Handel en Maatschappij
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Battle for the Migrants
This book approaches the well-documented study of European mass migration to the United States of America from the viewpoint of mass migration as a business venture. The overall purpose is to demonstrate that maritime and migration histories are interlinked and dependent on a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and political factors at work in the nineteenth century Atlantic community. It centres on both the evolution of the port of Rot…
Herman Obdeijn en Marlou Schrover, Komen en gaan. Immigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The visible hand of shipping interests in American migration policies 1815-1914
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
East European Jewish migrants and settlers in Belgium, 1880–1914
This article analyses whether the Jews leaving Tsarist Russia and the Austro‐Hungarian Empire, part of the transatlantic mass migration of the end of the nineteenth century, became subject to state control. Most emigrants from Eastern Europe in this period passed through the ports of Bremen, Hamburg and Antwerp. In the 1880s only a few emigrants were not welcome in America and sent back to Europe, but economic competition and the supposed health …
Prepaid tickets to the New World
Este artículo examina la situación de los cárteles del transporte naviero (conferencias) que regularon el transporte migratorio transatlántico del continente europeo a los Estados Unidos. El objetivo del artículo es identificar las presiones internas y externas subyacentes a estos acuerdos, así como las estrategias empleadas para neutralizar estas presiones. El autor llega a la conclusión de que un acuerdo sobre la división del mercado en quatos …
Where All Passenger Liners Meet
As Canny argued labor demand as such does not suffice to trigger in-migration. No major migration movement would take place, until it becomes profitable for the carriers of human cargo to make the connection between supply and demand. Nonetheless, as underlined by Hvidt the transportation system of mass migration has been so far quite neglected as a field of study. On the North Atlantic trade route a cost-effective migrant transport arose between…
Riding the rails of removal
Nineteenth-century Belgian authorities liked to consider themselves as liberal towards migrants, but the 340,000 expulsions carried out between 1835 and 1913 paint a different picture. This article assesses how the development of Belgian railway networks influenced controls of entry and expulsion practices through seven borderland hubs with international rail connections. It first details how control stations followed changes in transport infrast…
Borders and Frontiers in Global and Transnational History. Introduction
In the last 25 years or so, global and transnational history have grown into an incontrovertible research agenda, investigating how all sorts of circulations, entanglements, and connections shaped modern history. At the same time, this research agenda has been criticized for underestimating the study of historically important formations such as the nation-state, Europe, or world systems—which persist despite a cavalcade of connections piercing th…
From queen of seaside resorts to expulsion corridor
International migration and tourism developed into cornerstones of modern societies and have many common features: they generally pass through the same routes, are served and controlled by similar actors, and often depend on each other as for instance with the prevalence of migrant labour in the tourism industry. Despite these entanglements which sometimes blur the lines between tourists and migrants, there has been very little scholarly attentio…
International railroads and human mobility controls at the Franco-Belgian border (1840s-1860s)
L’article analyse l’impact de l’inauguration des réseaux de chemins de fer internationaux sur les contrôles transfrontaliers de la mobilité humaine à la frontière franco-belge. Il remet en question l’idée préconçue que ces réseaux mettaient un terme aux contrôles. Au contraire, cette recherche démontre que la Sûreté publique continuait à s’appuyer sur ces contrôles frontaliers, alors qu’elle développait des mesures d’observation des étrangers à l…
America’s first ‘refugee’ crisis’
In the early twentieth century, millions of passengers crossed the North Atlantic. The vast majority were migrants relocating to North America or returning to Europe; less known is the growing number of tourists comprising predominantly of affluent Americans heading for Europe. Organising this vast passenger traffic was a sophisticated and self-regulated passenger business dominated by British and German companies and organised in ‘shipping confe…
Bounding Mass Migration across the Atlantic
Bounding Mass Migration across the Atlantic: European Shipping Companies between US Border Building and Evasion (1860s–1920s) This article questions the assumption that the rhetoric, laws and border controls to restrict immigration into the United States originated on the Pacific border to exclude Asians and were later transferred to the Atlantic border to limit European migration. To demonstrate that two separate immigration regimes had develope…
The visible hand of shipping interests in American migration policies 1815-1914
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Business of Relocating Stranded Americans and Belgian Refugees during the First World War
This article provides a business perspective of the role of transport companies in directing transatlantic refugees during the First World War. It details the financial, administrative and logistical barriers that stranded Americans faced at the outbreak of the war. It discusses how authorities, NGO s and especially shipping companies organised the transportation of approximately 150,000 people in a matter of weeks along the well-oiled business n…
Steamshipping Companies and Transmigration Patterns
The article gives a business perspective on the development of transit routes during the long nineteenth century transatlantic migration from Europe to the us . It first stresses that due to the economic interests generated by transatlantic migrant transport the political economy behind early migration policies centred much more on how people moved rather than who was doing the moving. These had a lasting impact on transit routes. With nationalis…
Transoceanic Shipping, Mass Migration, and the Rise of Modern-Day International Border Controls
The importance of passenger transport companies to facilitating mass migration have generally been acknowledged. Their paradoxal role as obstructers of the same, being an integral part of our modern day border enforcement system, has received much less attention. This article analyses the use of transport companies by states to monitor and restrict migration. It focuses on the recent historiography of the role of shipping companies in regulating …
East European Jewish migrants and settlers in Belgium, 1880–1914
This article analyses whether the Jews leaving Tsarist Russia and the Austro‐Hungarian Empire, part of the transatlantic mass migration of the end of the nineteenth century, became subject to state control. Most emigrants from Eastern Europe in this period passed through the ports of Bremen, Hamburg and Antwerp. In the 1880s only a few emigrants were not welcome in America and sent back to Europe, but economic competition and the supposed health …
Prepaid tickets to the New World
Este artículo examina la situación de los cárteles del transporte naviero (conferencias) que regularon el transporte migratorio transatlántico del continente europeo a los Estados Unidos. El objetivo del artículo es identificar las presiones internas y externas subyacentes a estos acuerdos, así como las estrategias empleadas para neutralizar estas presiones. El autor llega a la conclusión de que un acuerdo sobre la división del mercado en quatos …
Where All Passenger Liners Meet
As Canny argued labor demand as such does not suffice to trigger in-migration. No major migration movement would take place, until it becomes profitable for the carriers of human cargo to make the connection between supply and demand. Nonetheless, as underlined by Hvidt the transportation system of mass migration has been so far quite neglected as a field of study. On the North Atlantic trade route a cost-effective migrant transport arose between…
Where All Passenger Liners Meet
As Canny argued labor demand as such does not suffice to trigger in-migration. No major migration movement would take place, until it becomes profitable for the carriers of human cargo to make the connection between supply and demand. Nonetheless, as underlined by Hvidt the transportation system of mass migration has been so far quite neglected as a field of study. On the North Atlantic trade route a cost-effective migrant transport arose between…
Prepaid tickets to the New World
Este artículo examina la situación de los cárteles del transporte naviero (conferencias) que regularon el transporte migratorio transatlántico del continente europeo a los Estados Unidos. El objetivo del artículo es identificar las presiones internas y externas subyacentes a estos acuerdos, así como las estrategias empleadas para neutralizar estas presiones. El autor llega a la conclusión de que un acuerdo sobre la división del mercado en quatos …
The visible hand of shipping interests in American migration policies 1815-1914
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
East European Jewish migrants and settlers in Belgium, 1880–1914
This article analyses whether the Jews leaving Tsarist Russia and the Austro‐Hungarian Empire, part of the transatlantic mass migration of the end of the nineteenth century, became subject to state control. Most emigrants from Eastern Europe in this period passed through the ports of Bremen, Hamburg and Antwerp. In the 1880s only a few emigrants were not welcome in America and sent back to Europe, but economic competition and the supposed health …
Herman Obdeijn en Marlou Schrover, Komen en gaan. Immigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Battle for the Migrants
This book approaches the well-documented study of European mass migration to the United States of America from the viewpoint of mass migration as a business venture. The overall purpose is to demonstrate that maritime and migration histories are interlinked and dependent on a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and political factors at work in the nineteenth century Atlantic community. It centres on both the evolution of the port of Rot…
Ton de Graaf, Voor Handel en Maatschappij
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Drew Keeling, The Business of Tranatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Transoceanic Shipping, Mass Migration, and the Rise of Modern-Day International Border Controls
The importance of passenger transport companies to facilitating mass migration have generally been acknowledged. Their paradoxal role as obstructers of the same, being an integral part of our modern day border enforcement system, has received much less attention. This article analyses the use of transport companies by states to monitor and restrict migration. It focuses on the recent historiography of the role of shipping companies in regulating …
Transience, Overseas Migration and the Modern European City. Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Cities and Overseas Migration in the Long Nineteenth Century’
Migration is one of key factors to the existence of which we owe the emergence of the modern urban condition that continues to shape the life of large populations today. Precisely the same reasons that generated great urban growth of European cities in the late nineteenth century were responsible for concurrent mass migration overseas – to North America and elsewhere – for a number of reasons. Given the everyday experience of the mass of transien…
Borders and Frontiers in Global and Transnational History. Introduction
In the last 25 years or so, global and transnational history have grown into an incontrovertible research agenda, investigating how all sorts of circulations, entanglements, and connections shaped modern history. At the same time, this research agenda has been criticized for underestimating the study of historically important formations such as the nation-state, Europe, or world systems—which persist despite a cavalcade of connections piercing th…
Bounding Mass Migration across the Atlantic
Bounding Mass Migration across the Atlantic: European Shipping Companies between US Border Building and Evasion (1860s–1920s) This article questions the assumption that the rhetoric, laws and border controls to restrict immigration into the United States originated on the Pacific border to exclude Asians and were later transferred to the Atlantic border to limit European migration. To demonstrate that two separate immigration regimes had develope…
Steamshipping Companies and Transmigration Patterns
The article gives a business perspective on the development of transit routes during the long nineteenth century transatlantic migration from Europe to the us . It first stresses that due to the economic interests generated by transatlantic migrant transport the political economy behind early migration policies centred much more on how people moved rather than who was doing the moving. These had a lasting impact on transit routes. With nationalis…
The Battle for the Migrants
Between the Public and the State
Based on Freeman's model of interest group-driven migration policies, the article gives a qualitative inside look on a neglected actor during the formative years of US immigration reform. It analyzes the central role of the shipping companies in coordinating the pro-immigration campaign with and against other interest groups. Their lobbying is divided into two complementary sections: inside top-down efforts (lobbyists) to influence legislators an…
America’s first ‘refugee’ crisis’
In the early twentieth century, millions of passengers crossed the North Atlantic. The vast majority were migrants relocating to North America or returning to Europe; less known is the growing number of tourists comprising predominantly of affluent Americans heading for Europe. Organising this vast passenger traffic was a sophisticated and self-regulated passenger business dominated by British and German companies and organised in ‘shipping confe…
The Business of Relocating Stranded Americans and Belgian Refugees during the First World War
This article provides a business perspective of the role of transport companies in directing transatlantic refugees during the First World War. It details the financial, administrative and logistical barriers that stranded Americans faced at the outbreak of the war. It discusses how authorities, NGO s and especially shipping companies organised the transportation of approximately 150,000 people in a matter of weeks along the well-oiled business n…
International railroads and human mobility controls at the Franco-Belgian border (1840s-1860s)
L’article analyse l’impact de l’inauguration des réseaux de chemins de fer internationaux sur les contrôles transfrontaliers de la mobilité humaine à la frontière franco-belge. Il remet en question l’idée préconçue que ces réseaux mettaient un terme aux contrôles. Au contraire, cette recherche démontre que la Sûreté publique continuait à s’appuyer sur ces contrôles frontaliers, alors qu’elle développait des mesures d’observation des étrangers à l…
Riding the rails of removal
Nineteenth-century Belgian authorities liked to consider themselves as liberal towards migrants, but the 340,000 expulsions carried out between 1835 and 1913 paint a different picture. This article assesses how the development of Belgian railway networks influenced controls of entry and expulsion practices through seven borderland hubs with international rail connections. It first details how control stations followed changes in transport infrast…
From queen of seaside resorts to expulsion corridor
International migration and tourism developed into cornerstones of modern societies and have many common features: they generally pass through the same routes, are served and controlled by similar actors, and often depend on each other as for instance with the prevalence of migrant labour in the tourism industry. Despite these entanglements which sometimes blur the lines between tourists and migrants, there has been very little scholarly attentio…
Par terre ou par mer ? L’expulsion des citoyens venus d’outre-Atlantique depuis la Belgique vers 1900
International audience
Deportation at all costs? Adapting US migration policies to the First World War
Migration et transit transatlantique
A rural-urban divide? Guest registers and migration control in Belgium 1840–1914
Introduction – Controlling mobile guests where they rest. Comparative perspectives on hotel registration in Europe, 1840s–1930s
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