Autore: Brunet, Francesca
Titolo: Mobility Imposed, Denied, Hindered, Facilitated. Treatment and Strategies of Unwanted Mobile People in and beyond the Tyrol Region between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Periodico: Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 87 - Pagina finale: 107

Between the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth century, the Austrian empire, just like the rest of Europe, saw a surge in measures designed to repress and control certain targeted groups, especially the mobile poor and the marginalized. At the same time, a more structured – albeit deeply exclusionary – welfare system developed with forms of assistance for those in poverty and the unemployed. Against that backdrop, this article discusses some aspects of the mobility of poor and unwanted people, with a particular focus on the Tyrolean border region. The stage will be set by looking at the legal landscape, analyzing the 'anti-vagrancy' and 'anti-Gypsy' laws and regulations enacted in this period to impose mobility on their targets or otherwise to foreclose it. This will bring us to the policies that state and local authorities implemented to exclude certain groups of unwanted individuals by enabling and even facilitating their mobility, to this end engaging in practices that pushed the boundaries of legality, even crossing into illegality, and the analysis will highlight their ambiguity. The discussion then turns to the policies and institutions designed to assist the mobile poor: systems of material aid from which certain categories of people were nonetheless excluded. Finally, the article briefly explores the informal networks that helped sustain the mobility of 'vagrants' and 'Gypsies'.




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