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Moving Romans - Migration to Rome in the Principate (Hardcover)
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While the importance of migration in contemporary society is
universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put
contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of
all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is
of real interest as it presents a situation in which the volume of
migration was high, and the migrants in question formed a mixture
of voluntary migrants, slaves, and soldiers. Moving Romans offers
an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models
and theories from the field of migration history. It provides a
coherent framework for the study of Roman migration on the basis of
a detailed study of migration to the city of Rome in the first two
centuries A.D. Advocating an approach in which voluntary migration
is studied together with the forced migration of slaves and the
state-organised migration of soldiers, it discusses the nature of
institutional responses to migration, arguing that state controls
focused mainly on status preservation rather than on the movement
of people. It demonstrates that Roman family structure strongly
favoured the migration of young unmarried males. Tacoma argues that
in the case of Rome, two different types of the so-called urban
graveyard theory, which predicts that cities absorbed large streams
of migrants, apply simultaneously. He shows that the labour market
which migrants entered was relatively open to outsiders, yet also
rather crowded, and that although ethnic community formation could
occur, it was hardly the dominant mode by which migrants found
their way into Rome because social and economic ties often overrode
ethnic ones. The book shows that migration impinges on social
relations, on the Roman family, on demography, on labour relations,
and on cultural interaction, and thus deserves to be placed high on
the research agenda of ancient historians. Photo (c) Krien Clevis
(from the series Echoes of Eternity) Krien Clevis is an
artist/researcher (PhD) who is working on an ongoing photo project,
part of the multi-disciplinary Dutch research project 'Mapping the
Via Appia'. Clevis' contribution to the project is devoted to this
unique historical 'avenue of memories', which over the centuries
has been subject to constant change. She studies the different
perspectives on this street, ranging from its protection to its
opening-up. See also: www.knir.it/krienclevis/ or
www.krienclevis.com
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