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This workshop introduces an international audience to the particular method by which scientific insights into statistics were used by the Luxembourgian state administration to control migration. When issuing the first law on the surveillance of migrants in 1893 following mass immigration caused by the country’s rapid industrialization, Luxembourgian authorities followed the guidelines on documenting migration for the first time developed on the Statistical Congress of Brussels in 1853, which were later updated regularly. An administrative workflow was developed, which remained mainly intact until the transition to a computerized workflow in the late 1970s.
The organisers of the workshop have conducted historical research to reconstruct the administrative throughput and interpret the scientific knowledge which can be gained through its documentation by means of both analogue and digital methods. During the workshop, the organisers make the participants familiar with the administrative practices which characterised this throughput, as well as the research methods they used to analyse the content and meaning of this historical documentation practice of surveillance. The workshop consists of three stages.
