Summary
This project explores the creation of norms on citizenship and naturalization in the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. It focuses on European mercantile communities in three cities-Istanbul, Aleppo, and Izmir in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on jurisdictional disputes between Ottoman and European officials over the legal belonging of European immigrants. Since that, before the nineteenth-century, a territorial-based notion of citizenship and universal identification systems did not exist in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, the political affiliation of European merchants and other immigration was often a matter of local controversy and diplomatic negotiations. These episodes of crisis, MAKEFRA argues, lead to the elaboration of internationally-recognized rules and practices over legal belonging, a “proto-citizenship” for European and Ottoman subjects. These rules, jointly elaborated by European and non-European actors, constituted the basis for modern-day systems of citizenship and naturalization in Europe and the Middle East.
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101155613 |
| Start date: | 01-09-2024 |
| End date: | 31-08-2026 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | - 132 638,00 Euro |
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This project explores the creation of norms on citizenship and naturalization in the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. It focuses on European mercantile communities in three cities-Istanbul, Aleppo, and Izmir in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on jurisdictional disputes between Ottoman and European officials over the legal belonging of European immigrants. Since that, before the nineteenth-century, a territorial-based notion of citizenship and universal identification systems did not exist in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, the political affiliation of European merchants and other immigration was often a matter of local controversy and diplomatic negotiations. These episodes of crisis, MAKEFRA argues, lead to the elaboration of internationally-recognized rules and practices over legal belonging, a “proto-citizenship” for European and Ottoman subjects. These rules, jointly elaborated by European and non-European actors, constituted the basis for modern-day systems of citizenship and naturalization in Europe and the Middle East.Status
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HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01Update Date
03-10-2024
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