Special Issue Migrants and the Criminal Courts in Western Europe, 1600-1900Guest-editor: Marion PluskotaIntroduction to the Special IssueMarion PluskotaJudging Migrants. Towards a New Research Agenda on Social Control, Local Conflict, and the Judicial Position of Migrants in the Early Modern Dutch RepublicKarlijn Luk and Samantha Sint NicolaasKeeping Order – Theft, Sex, and Vagrancy. Gendered Prosecution Patterns in Seventeenth-Century BernTina AdamA Game of Norms. Migrants, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Early Modern BolognaSanne MuurlingThe Lure of the City. Migration, Crime, and Urbanization in Amsterdam, 1850-1905 Jeannette Kamp and Marion PluskotaRemoving Local Nuisances, Arresting Masterless Strangers, and Granting ‘Nights on Request’. The Policing of Vagrancy in Late Nineteenth-Century Antwerp and Brussels Margo De Koster and Ayfer ErkulData ArticleExploring Slave Trade in Asia. First Steps towards an International DatabaseMaartje Hids, Pascal Konings, Sam J. Miske, Matthias van Rossum, Merve Tosun, and Hannah de Korte Book ReviewsTSEG The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is the Dutch-Flemish journal of social and economic history.