Migration and mobility in the early Roman Empire / edited by Luuk de Ligt, Laurens E. Tacoma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaching migration in the early Roman Empire / Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma -- The impact of migration on the demographic profile of the City of Rome : a reassessment / Elio Lo Cascio -- Seasonal labour and rural-urban migration in Roman Italy / Paul Erdkamp -- Food distributions and immigration in Imperial Rome / Seth G. Bernard -- Migration in early-Imperial Italy : Herculaneum and Rome compared / Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt -- Labour mobility in the Roman world : a case study of mines in Iberia / Claire Holleran -- State-organised mobility in the Roman Empire : legionaries and auxiliaries / Saskia T. Roselaaar -- Peasants into soldiers : recruitment and military mobility in the early Roman Empire / Tatiana Ivleva -- Tracing familial mobility : female and child migrants in the Roman West / Christer Bruun -- Isotopes and mobility in the ancient Roman world / Tracy L. Prowse -- Revisiting urban graveyard theory : migrant flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens / Saskia Hin -- Migration in Roman Egypt : problems and possibilities / Colin Adams -- Migrant women in P.Oxy. and the port cities of Roman Egypt : tracing women's travel behaviour in papyrological sources / Lien Foubert -- Human mobility in the Roman Near East : patterns and motives / Andrea Zerbini -- Moving epigrams : migration and mobility in the Greek East / Laurens E. Tacoma and Rolf A. Tybout -- Dead men walking : the repatriation of mortal remains / Rolf A. Tybout -- Movers and stayers / Greg Woolf.

"Until recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary mobility and migration were intertwined and should be studied together. The papers assembled in the book tap into the remarkably large reservoir of archaeological and textual sources concerning various types of movement during the Roman Principate. The most important themes covered are rural-urban migration, labour mobility, relationships between forced and voluntary mobility, state-organised movements of military units, and familial and female mobility. Contributors are: Colin Adams, Seth Bernard, Christer Bruun, Luuk de Ligt, Paul Erdkamp, Lien Foubert, Peter Garnsey, Saskia Hin, Claire Holleran, Tatiana Ivleva, Elio Lo Cascio, Tracy Prowse, Saskia Roselaar, Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf Tybout, Greg Woolf, and Andrea Zerbini"-- Provided by publisher.