Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective: An Introduction

Section One Creating the Polity

Mobility and Belonging in Antiquity: Greeks and Barbarians on the Move in the Northern Black Sea Region

Migration, Belonging and Identity in the Mesa Verde Region of the Southwestern United States

From the Senegal River to Siin: The Archaeology of Sereer Migrations in North-Western Senegambia

Section Two Polities Seeking Members

Socio-political Structure, Membership and Mobility in the Pre-Modern Malay World: The Case of Singapore in the 14th Century

Favouring Foreign Traders? The Venetian Republic and the Accommodation of Netherlandish Merchants in the late 16th and 17th Centuries

Section Three Polities Taken Over

To Become Chinese: Cultural Consciousness and Political Legitimacy in Early Medieval China (220–681)

“Becoming Roman, Becoming Barbarian”: Roman Citizenship and the Assimilation of Barbarians into the Late Roman World

Section Four Expanding and Consolidating the Empire

Kings, Kinsmen and Others: The Theory and Practice of Andean Allegiances

The Possibilities of Empire: Russian Sectarian Migration to South Caucasia and the Refashioning of Social Boundaries

About the Authors

References

Name Index

Geographical Index

Subject Index