1. Definition
There are various reasons why people may be forced to emigrate or flee against their will (Emigration): because of their faith or ideological position, for political reasons, or for economic reasons (Slave abduction). In the early modern period, confessional loyalty led to forced emigration from places where people refused to convert to the religion desired or prescribed by the state, or where they did not trust the success of such a mandatory conversion between faiths, so t…