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Dr Feys, Torsten
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Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte; Vakgroep Geschiedenis; Onderzoeksgroep Economie, Ecologie en Demografie (EED), more

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PhD Enterprising Merchants in the Global Atlantic: the Austrian Netherlands Trade with West and Central Africa, 1776-1786, more

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A1 Publications (15) [show]
Feys, T. (2023). Book Review: Migration and Development in Southern Europe and South America by Maria Damilakou and Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos. The Journal of Transport History 44(3): 509-511. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00225266231184073, more Feys, T. (2020). From queen of seaside resorts to expulsion corridor: monitoring the entry, stay, and expulsion of foreigners in Ostend (1838–1914). Journal of Tourism History 12(3): 213-236. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2020.1856203, more Feys, T. (2019). International railroads and human mobility controls at the Franco-Belgian border (1840s-1860s). Diasporas-Histoire et Societes 33: 35-54. https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.3305, more Feys, T. (2019). Riding the rails of removal: the impact of railways on border controls and expulsion practices. The Journal of Transport History 40(2): 189-210. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022526619832195, more Feys, T.; Sebak, P.K. (2018). America’s first ‘refugee’ crisis’: the repatriation of stranded Americans from Europe at the outbreak of the First World War. Journal of Tourism History 10(3): 225-246. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2018.1510435, more Feys, T. (2017). Virginia Hoel, Faith, Fatherland and the Norwegian Seaman: The work of the Norwegian Seamen’s Mission in Antwerp and Dutch Ports 1864-1920. BMGN 132: 3. https://dx.doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10378, more Feys, T. (2017). Between the public and the state: the shipping lobby's strategies against US immigration restrictions 1882-1917. International Migration Review 51(2): 344-374. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imre.12223, more Feys, T. (2016). Transoceanic shipping, mass migration, and the rise of modern-day international border controls: a historiographical appraisal. Mobility in History 7(1): 151-162. https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/mih.2016.070117, more Feys, T. (2016). Bounding mass migration across the Atlantic: European shipping companies between US border building and evasion (1860s-1920s), in: van der Vleuten, E. et al. Borders and frontiers in global and transnational history. Journal of Modern European History, 14(1): pp. 78-100. https://dx.doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944-2016-1-78, more Feys, T. (2016). Transoceanic shipping, mass migration, and the rise of modern-day international border controls. Mobility in History 7: 151-162. https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/mih.2016.070117, more van der Vleuten, E.; Feys, T. (2016). Borders and frontiers in global and transnational history. Introduction, in: van der Vleuten, E. et al. Borders and frontiers in global and transnational history. Journal of Modern European History, 14(1): pp. 29-34. https://dx.doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944-2016-1-29, more van der Vleuten, E.; Feys, T. (Ed.) (2016). Borders and frontiers in global and transnational history. Journal of Modern European History, 14(1). Sage Publishing: California. 144 pp., more Caestecker, F.; Feys, T. (2010). East European Jewish migrants and settlers in Belgium, 1880-1914: a transatlantic perspective. East Eur. Jew. Aff. 40(3): 261-284. dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2010.530422, more Feys, T. (2008). Prepaid tickets to the New World: the New York Continental Conference and transatlantic steerage Fares 1885–1895. Rev. Hist. Ecón. 26(2): 173-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900000318, more Feys, T. (2004). Radeloosheid in crisistijd: pogingen van de Belgische autoriteiten om een deel van de arme bevolking naar de Verenigde Staten te sturen 1847-1856. BTNG-RBHC XXXIV(2): 195-230, more
Peer reviewed publications (14) [show]
Feys, T. (2019). The business of relocating stranded Americans and Belgian refugees during the First World War. Journal of Migration History 5(2): 248-276. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00502003, more Feys, T. (2018). Immibel: l’immigration en Belgique au XIX^e siècle. Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle 57: 126-128. https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rh19.6061, more Feys, T. (2016). Recensie. Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen (eds). Globalising Migration History: the Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries). TSEG 13(3): 115-117. https://dx.doi.org/10.18352/tseg.872, more Feys, T. (2016). Steamshipping companies and transmigration patterns: the use of European cities as hubs during the era of mass migration to the US, in: Prokopovych, M. et al. Special issue: cities and overseas migration in the long Nineteenth Century. Journal of Migration History, 2(2): pp. 247-274. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00202003, more Prokopovych, M.; Feys, T. (2016). Transience, overseas migration and the modern European city. Introduction to the special issue ‘Cities and overseas migration in the long nineteenth century’, in: Prokopovych, M. et al. Special issue: cities and overseas migration in the long Nineteenth Century. Journal of Migration History, 2(2): pp. 209-222. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00202001, more Prokopovych, M.; Feys, T. (Ed.) (2016). Special issue: cities and overseas migration in the long Nineteenth Century. Journal of Migration History, 2(2). Brill: Leiden. 209-376 pp., more Feys, T. (2014). Shipping companies as carriers and barriers to human mobility : the Atlantic and Pacific border regimes of the United States. World History Connected 11(3): 34, more Feys, T. (2014). Book Review. Passage to the world: the emigrant experience 1807–1940. Int .J. Marit. Hist. 26(2): 384-386. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0843871414528082b, more Feys, T. (2014). The migrant experience: the Red Star Line museum. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 4(2): 147-149. https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2014.040213, more Feys, T. (2014). Recensie. Drew Keeling, The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914. TSEG 11(1): 192-194. https://dx.doi.org/10.18352/tseg.127, more Feys, T. (2013). Recensie. Ton de Graaf, Voor Handel en Maatschappij: Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Handelsmaatschappij 1824-1964. TSEG 10(1): 125-127. https://dx.doi.org/10.18352/tseg.190, more Feys, T. (2011). Recensie. Herman Obdeijn en Marlou Schrover, Komen en gaan. Immigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550. TSEG 8(4): 141-142. https://dx.doi.org/10.18352/tseg.351, more Feys, T. (2010). The visible hand of shipping interests in American migration policies 1815-1914. TSEG 7(1): 38-62, more Feys, T. (2007). Where all passenger liners meet: New York as a nodal point for the transatlantic migrant trade 1885-1895. Int .J. Marit. Hist. 19(2): 245-272. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387140701900211, more
Books (4) [show]
Feys, T. (2013). The battle for the migrants: The introduction of steamships on the North-Atlantic and its impact on the European exodus. Research in Maritime History, 50. International Maritime Economic History Association: St. John's. ISBN 9781927869000. 409 pp., more Feys, T. (2011). 30 Jaar OVAM: De Openbare Vlaamse Afvalstoffen Maatschappij in historisch perspectief. Academia Press: Gent. ISBN 978-90-382-1828-1. 129 pp., more Nauwelaerts, M.; Joos, E.; Feys, T.; Huysegems, F. (2009). One foot in America: De Joodse migranten van de Red Star Line en Eugeen Van Mieghem. B.A.I.: Antwerpen. ISBN 978-90-858653-0-8. 160 pp., more Feys, T.; Hoste, S.; Fischer, L.; Vanfraechem, S. (Ed.) (2007). Maritime transport and migration: The connections between maritime and migration networks. Research in Maritime History, 33. International Maritime Economic History Association: Newfoundland. ISBN 978-0-973893-43-4. V, 184 pp., more
Book chapters (20) [show]
Feys, T. (2023). A successful long-distance relationship: How the Higher Judiciary consolidated the Sûreté Publique’s 'absolute' powers over foreigners in Belgium (1830-1914), in: Ngongo, E. et al. Les migrations en Belgique (XIX-XXe siècles). Une histoire au prisme du droit et des institutions. Actes de la 4e Journée d'histoire belge des migrations tenue à Bruxelles le 22 septembre 2021. C@hiers du CRHIDI, 46: pp. 1547, more Feys, T. (2022). The impact of the American foreland on the European trans-Atlantic migrant trade via the port of New York, in: Lee, R. et al. Port-cities and their hinterlands: migration, trade and cultural exchange from the early seventeenth century to 1939. pp. 195-229. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429202254-8, more Feys, T. (2021). 1905 - De overheid moedigt landverhuizers aan: De plattegrond van passagiersstoomschepen als een spiegel van het migratiebeleid, in: De Maeyer, P. et al. De geschiedenis van België in 100 oude kaarten. pp. 310-313, more Feys, T. (2020). La mainmise du pouvoir central? Le contrôle et l’expulsion des étrangers dans les campagnes belges de 1830-1914, in: Campion, J. (Ed.) La police locale en Belgique: Sociohistoire d’une institution, d’un concept et de pratiques . Les cahiers du GEPS, 4: pp. 31-54, more Feys, T. (2017). The impact of the foreland on the transatlantic migrant trade: the port of New York as 'the' nodal point between foreland and hinterland, in: Lee, R. (Ed.) Port-cities and their hinterlands: migration, trade and cultural exchange from the early seventeenth-century to 1939. , more Feys, T. (2017). Een brug tussen werelddelen en een wereld appart: transatlantisch passagiersschepen als plaatsen van ontmoeting en segregatie, in: de Pater, B. et al. Allen zijn welkom: ontmoetingsplaatsen in de Lage Landen rond 1900. pp. 117-133, more Feys, T. (2016). L'intervention des compagnies maritimes dans les migrations transocéaniques vers les États-Unis: comparaison entre l'Atlantique et le Pacifique, in: GIS d'histoire maritime (Ed.) La maritimisation du monde de la préhistoire à nos jours. Collection Histoire Maritime, : pp. 429-459, more Feys, T.; Vanhaute, E. (2016). Internationale migratie, de nationale staat en de paradox van globalisering, in: Carlier, J. et al. De hermaakbare wereld? Essays over globalisering. pp. 25-39, more Feys, T. (2014). De grote oversteek tussen Twee Werelden: van het Meetjesland tot het Beloofde Land, in: Stynen, A. (Ed.) Boer vindt Land: Vlaamse migranten en Noord Amerika. pp. 85-103, more Feys, T. (2014). The smuggling of contraband Chinese and other ‘Chinese’ from Europe: comparing transpacific with transatlantic illegal migration to the US 1875–1917, in: Schottenhammer, A. (Ed.) Tribute, trade, and smuggling: commercial, scientific and human interaction in the middle period and early modern world. pp. 291-319, more Feys, T.; Caestecker, F. (2014). Bleef de Belg in de schaduw van zijn kerktoren? De Belgen en de Europese massamigratie van de 19de eeuw, in: Borghs, E. et al. Verapaz - de eerste Belgische kolonie. , more Feys, T.; Caestecker, F. (2014). Een kortstondige Belgische emigratiepolitiek naar overzeese gebieden (1830-1850), in: Borghs, E. et al. Verapaz - de eerste Belgische kolonie. , more Feys, T. (2013). The Norwegian American Line: a small part of a bigger puzzle, in: Sebak, P.K. et al. En reise mellom to verdener: den Norske Amerikalinje, 7. juni 1913-7. juni 2013. pp. 45, more Feys, T. (2013). Maritime migrations, in: Ness, I. The encyclopedia of global human migration. pp. 1-5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm352, more Feys, T. (2013). De grote trans-Atlantische oversteek onder stoom: een bloeiende en geoliede multinationale onderneming, in: Beelaert, B. (Ed.) Red Star Line: Antwerpen: 1873-1934. pp. 30-41, more Feys, T. (2010). Immigrant banking and the sale of shipping tickets at the turn of the Twentieth Century, in: Konstadakopulos, D. et al. 100 years in America. Tsamantas (Greece) – Worcester, MA (USA) 1908-2008, historical determinants and images of the identity and culture of diasporas from southeastern Europe. pp. 56-75, more Feys, T. (2009). Munt slaan uit migratie, in: Huysegems, F. (Ed.) One foot in America: de joodse migranten van de Red Star Line en Eugeen Van Mieghem. pp. 71-98, more Feys, T. (2008). Red star line as transport company, in: Nauwelaerts, M. (Ed.) Red Star Line: people on the move. pp. 35-54, more Feys, T. (2007). The battle for the migrants: the evolution from port to company competition 1840-1914, in: Feys, T. et al. Maritime transport and migration: the connections between maritime and migration networks. Research in Maritime History, 33: pp. 27-47, more Feys, T. (2005). De poorten naar de nieuwe wereld: de hevige concurrentietsrijd voor de migrantiehandel, in: Bollen, A. Antwerpen = Amerika. Red Star Line: een nieuwe toekomst tegenmoet. pp. 131-152, more
Thesis [show]
Feys, T. (2008). A business approach to transatlantic migration: the introduction of steam-shipping on the North-Atlantic and its impact on the European Exodus 1840-1914. PhD Thesis. European University Institute: Florence. 553 pp., more
Abstract [show]
Feys, T. (2019). Ostend, from Queen of Seaside Resorts to Expulsion Gateway: Monitoring the entry, stay and expulsion of foreigners through Ostend (1840-1914), in: Limberger, M. et al. Book of abstracts: Social dynamics in Atlantic ports XIVth-XXst centuries - VIth international colloquium of the governance of the Atlantic ports XIVth - XXst centuries. pp. 15, more
Other publication [show]
Feys, T.; Verhoeven, G. (2022). Oostende: een badstad met vele gedaantes, in: Fockedey, N. et al. Testerep juni 2022. Testerep magazine, 23(6), more

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