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MOBILITE, REFUGIES ET DROIT DANS LE MONDE ROMAIN
[ ENG] Mobility, Refugees and the law in the Roman World
Fecha de recepci6n: 4 enero 2021 / Fecha de aceptaci6n: 1 marzo 2021
CLAUDIA MOATTI
University of Southern California
(California)
moatti@usc.edu
Abstract: in the Roman world, central or local authorities never issued general rules
concerning migratory flows and the protection of their territory. The very notion of migrant
cannot be translated: the Latin words rather designate situations of mobility without
prejudging the status of the person moving. However, apart from certain panegyrics that
describe the Roman world as a fluid one, the sources make it possible to establish the
existence of multiple measures taken to control or protect certain categories of people,
according to various logics (fight against tax evasion, maintenance of public order, or
protection of symbolic spaces). But can we speak of migration policies? After a brief
examination of this question, which allows us to establish that the ancients clearly
distinguished between legal and clandestine, useful and useless mobility, the article analyzes
more precisely the procedures required, under the Republic and the Empire, to request
asylum: whether it concerned exiles, deserters, barbarian refugees, they all related to ius and
tofides, in a way that make it possible to better distinguish between refugees and deported,
but also between hospitality and asylum.
Keywords: Roman world; migratory policies; Roman law; refugees.
Resume: Dans le monde romain, les autorit6s centrales ou locales n'ontjamais 6mis de rigles
g6ndrales concernant les flux migratoires et la protection de leur territoire. La notion meme
de migrant ne peut etre traduite : les mots latins d6signent plut6t des situations de mobilitd,
sans pr6juger du statut de celui qui se ddplace. Toutefois, mis a part certains pandgyriques
qui d6crivent le monde romain comme un monde fluide, les sources permettent d'6tablir
l'existence de multiples mesures prises pour contr6ler ou prot6ger certaines categories de
personnes, selon des logiques varides (lutte contre l'6vasion fiscale, maintien de l'ordre
public, ou protection d'espaces symboliques). Peut-on pour autant parler de politiques
migratoires ? Apr6s un bref examen de cette question, qui nous permet d'6tablir que les
anciens distinguaient clairement mobilitds 16gale et clandestine, utile et inutile, l'article
analyse plus pr6cis6ment les procedures exigdes, sous la R6publique et l'Empire, pour
demander l'asile : qu'il s'agit d'exil6s, de d6serteurs, ou de r6fugids barbares, elles relevaient
toutes du ius et de lafides, ce qui rend possible la distinction entre r6fugids et d6port6s, mais
aussi entre hospitalitd et asile.
Mots cle: Monde romain; politiques migratoires; droit romain; rdfugids.
Vergentis. Revista de Investigaci6n de la Catedra Internacional Conjunta Inocencio III
N0 12, enero-junio 2021, ISSN: 2445-2394, e-ISSN: 2605-3357
CLAUDIA MOATTI, pp. 19-43](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/vergntis12&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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