'A wide-ranging, erudite and original meditation on the extraordinary and ordinary act of human migration. Livi-Bacci uses analytic rigour and personal stories to counter the "migration crisis" myths of our current age.'Peter Leese, author of Migrant Representations: Life Story, Investigation, Picture
List of IllustrationsIntroductionI. Antiquity1.1. Seneca, two thousand years ago1.2. Settlers and founders: ápoikoi and oikistés1.3 Augustus's Res gestae1.4. Peoples on the marchII. In the Hands of the State2.1. Forced migration2.2. Peru: up and down the Andes2.3. The end of an empire2.4. The Soviet Union and its internal enemiesIII. Misdeeds of Nature3.1. Unkind nature3.2. Drought3.3. A Caribbean odyssey3.4. Ireland: the blight of diasporaIV. Organised Migration4.1. On the road, not alone4.2. The filles du roi in the laboratory of Nouvelle France4.3. The Drang nach Osten and the Germanisation of Eastern Europe4.4. From the Rhine to the Volga with Catherine the GreatV. Free Migration5.1. A Rare Phenomenon5.2. Moving freely5.3. The Great Transoceanic Migration5.4. America: the "advancing wave" of migrationReconsiderationsNotesIndex
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Florence.