Moving Romans : migration to Rome in the principate /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 ad. It advocates an approach in which voluntary migration is studied together with the forced migration of slaves and the state-organized 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. It 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, applied simultaneously. It shows that the labour market which migrants entered was on the one hand relatively open to outsiders, yet was also rather crowded. It argues 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. It shows how 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191821868 0191821861 9780191080951 0191080950 |