Law, Literature and Naturalization in an Age of Empire

入籍的历史对公民身份的社会文化和法律限制是如何演变的，以及在边境限制出现之前这些限制是如何施加和经历的，提供了重要的见解。该项目采用了文学、法律和文化史交叉的创新方法，旨在提供第一个关于大英帝国扩张期间犹太人入籍的全球报道，这是移民史上的一个关键阶段。这个账户将产生关于少数族裔社区如何并入该州的新知识。它的好处包括一个记录移民和难民生活的新框架，以及开发新的文化资源以应对移徙带来的社会挑战。

The history of naturalization offers significant insights into how sociocultural and legal limits on citizenship evolved, and how these limits were imposed and experienced before the advent of border restrictions. Deploying innovative methods at the intersection of literary, legal and cultural history, this project aims to provide the first global account of Jewish naturalization during the British empire’s expansion, a crucial phase in immigration history. This account will generate new knowledge about how minority communities are incorporated into the state. Its benefits include a new framework to document the lives of migrants and refugees and the development of novel cultural resources to address the social challenges of migration.