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Regulation: trade, populations, movement
Présentation
Three fields are explored, at the crossroads of economic and social history: markets, populations, and movements.
Our approach to regulation is predicated on two main tenets:
(1) The desire not to make States or institutions the sole actors in regulation. The history of regulation is conceived here as the product of negotiation, exchange, and even confrontation between institutions, administrations, populations, and individuals with often divergent interests.
(2) The ambition not to reduce issues of regulation to the contemporary era or to Europe alone.
This area therefore comprises the modern and contemporary eras, as well as different scales and spaces, in order to bring to light changes and continuities from the point of view of the actors, processes, and issues involved in regulating markets, populations, and movement.
This area focuses on the mechanisms by which complex processes are regulated: the economics of regulation, the history of institutions, the study of public policy, and the history of populations.
Thématique 1
Administration and Population Dynamics
This theme is devoted to the ways in which populations are regulated, at the crossroads of social history, historical demography, the history of institutions, and public policy.
A first sub-theme focuses more specifically on the administration and politics of populations. Population regulation refers to measures taken by the political authorities to influence the size and composition of the population. It can also be understood in a broader sense to mean the standards, procedures, techniques, and institutions that govern behaviour.
A second sub-theme concerns the history of the family and populations. Analysis of family dynamics and demographic behaviours, as well as interest in specific groups (children and the elderly in particular), are at the heart of its research.
The seminar, ‘Families and individuals in Europe from early modern times to the present day’, is directly linked to this theme.
Thématique 2
Migration Control
This theme looks at the demographic dynamics of migration, health issues, the processes of integration, identity reconstruction, and the creation of minorities within host societies, as well as migration policies and the legal mechanisms that govern mobility.
Within this vast field, two areas of study are given priority, with a common focus on access to the labour market, from the modern era to the present day: (1) migration policy and law; and (2) migration, families, and the labour market. In connection with the area, “Gender and Society”, the focus is on the dynamics of female immigration across a wide spectrum of professional qualifications. The aim is to assess the place of the family structure, alongside the individual and community structures, in the dynamics of migration and in the processes of social and professional inclusion.
The theme is closely linked to that of market regulation.
The seminar, ‘The migratory experience: History and social sciences’, is associated with this theme.
Thématique 3
Markets, Companies, and Regulation
We have chosen to ground our collective concerns in economic history, which is a fundamental discipline in the study of societies. Analyses are conducted on multiple spatial scales (local, regional, inter/national) and cover the countries of Western Europe, with a focus on Japan and the Middle East, the Maghreb, and Indochina in colonial times. The chronological framework extends from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the contexts of crises (economic, political, social) which highlight the structural features and fragilities of markets, and which modify the relationships between actors and institutions. The company is a place where men and women work together to define rules, values, and ways of doing things, an often adversarial arena.
The theme has points of overlap with the areas, ‘Gender and Society’, ‘Territory, Environment, Health’, and ‘Arts, Images, Society’.
The ‘Companies, Markets, Regulations’ seminar is directly connected to this theme.