The impact of immigration on the development of citizenship in seventeenth-century England

本文将通过法律的棱镜来探讨移民与17世纪英国公民观念发展之间的关系。尽管历史学家承认17世纪对公民身份概念的发展至关重要，但学者们在很大程度上忽视了围绕移民的激烈辩论，特别是有助于定义和监管外国人和公民的立法、诉讼和有法律依据的辩论。在公民身份的背景下恢复17世纪移民到英国的历史，这对于复杂化关于一段“自豪的欢迎历史”的过于简单化的叙述是很重要的。

This thesis will explore the relationship between immigration and developing notions of citizenship in seventeenth-century England through the prism of law. While historians have recognised the 17th-century as critical in the development of concepts of citizenship, scholars have largely neglected the lively debates around immigration, particularly the legislation, litigation and legally informed debates that contributed to defining and policing the alien and citizen. Recovering the history of 17th-century migration to England in the context of citizenship is important to complicate oversimplified narratives of a 'proud history of welcome'.