European historians grapple with a range of welfare issues related to migration in Europe since the early modern period. Most of them consider England and Wales, reflecting the scale of research available on the Old and New Poor Laws there, and the richness and systematic nature of the records that the welfare legislation generated. Others however analyze migration, settlement, entitlement, and belonging in Austria, Belgium, France, Prussia, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Among the topics are settlement and practice in London's West End 1725-1824; memories of pauperism; migrants' difficulties in obtaining entitlement to relief in Switzerland from the 1550s to the early 20th century; agrarian change, labor organization, and welfare entitlements in the North Sea region 1650-1800; and settlement law and rural-urban relief transfers in 19th-century Belgium. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)