Uppgifter om migration (såväl lokal som interregional och internationell) i Sverige och Finland under åren 1613–1618. Uppgifterna är på hushålls- eller individnivå och rör såväl landsbygd som städer. För varje hushåll/individ anges (i den mån det uppges i källan) titel/yrke, namn, ursprungsort samt destination för migrationen (angivet med socken/stad, härad och landskap/land). Uppgifterna är hämtade från rannsakningslängderna från Älvsborgs andra lösen (i Riksarkiven i Stockholm och Helsingfors).

Data on migration (local as well as interregional and international) in Sweden and Finland during the period 1613–1618. The data concern the household/individual level, urban and rural. For each household/individual the data contain title/occupation, name, home address, and migration destination; given as parish/town, hundred, and county/country (if the data is present in the source). The data is collected from the taxation records from the second Älvsborg's ransom taxation (in the National Archives of Sweden and Finland).

To study soldiers' women forming military households as a form of state building is an attempt to expand ‘the below’-perspective beyond its inherited reliance upon studies of ‘the local.’ Early modern state building meant the creation of several new such socio-economic niches, of which soldier's woman was one. After some theoretical and methodological discussion, it first establishes when and how soldier's woman became a socio-economic niche in early modern Sweden, before exploring the characteristics of that niche and the women who lived in it. Compared to other urban settings, soldiers' women should thus be more common in Stockholm – which is why there is a sufficient volume of records available to be analysed to begin with. Viewing early modern military household formation as everyday politics of state building thus shows how its results could be unintended not just from below, but also from the very top.

This thesis is a study of migration in the early seventeenth-century Swedish feudal society, and of its migration regime; that is the political, legal and economic structures that shaped the migration patterns. The most important sources are taxation records from Älvsborgs lösen, containing demographic migration data for large parts of the Swedish realm 1613–1618. The migration regime is also studied through sources such as legislation and legal records.

Migration rates and migration distances are analysed for households and for servants. Although most migration was short-distance, different social groups had different migration patterns. Further, urban migration patterns, inter-regional and international migration are analysed. Concerning migration rates, the study shows that migration was as common in seventeenth-century Sweden as in other parts of Europe (including England), and also as common as in the nineteenth century. 

In the thesis, legislation and legal practices concerning the mobility of tenants and servants, as well as concerning urban migration, international migration and forced migration (banishments and deportations) are studied. The study of the migration regime found that since not only rural but ideally also urban production was geographically fixed, regulating migration and population mobility was an important issue within the Swedish feudal society. 

The results confirm the fundamental importance of migration for the Swedish seventeenth-century feudal society, in which labour was free while the means of production were immobile. Through comparisons with historical research on other regions, this result is evidently not only valid for seventeenth-century Sweden, but may be generalized also for other feudal societies.