Migration and Membership Regimes brings together ten essays on the history of settlement and migration in an analytical framework which reconceptualises the migrant-state relationship and explores the variety of membership regimes on five continents and over two millennia.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective: An Introduction, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Leo Lucassen SECTION 1: CREATING THE POLITY Mobility and Belonging in Antiquity: Greeks and Barbarians on the Move in the Northern Black Sea Region, Christel Müller Migration, Belonging and Identity in the Mesa Verde Region of the Southwestern United States, Mark D. Varien From the Senegal River to Siin: The Archaeology of Sereer Migrations in North-Western Senegambia, Ibrahima Thiaw SECTION 2: POLITIES SEEKING MEMBERS Socio-political Structure, Membership and Mobility in the Pre-Modern Malay World: The Case of Singapore in the 14th Century, Derek Heng Favouring Foreign Traders? The Venetian Republic and the Accommodation of Netherlandish Merchants in the late 16th and 17th Centuries, Maartje van Gelder SECTION 3: POLITIES TAKEN OVER To Become Chinese: Cultural Consciousness and Political Legitimacy in Early Medieval China (220-681), Mu-Chou Poo “Becoming Roman, Becoming Barbarian”: Roman Citizenship and the Assimilation of Barbarians into the Late Roman World, Ralph W. Mathisen SECTION 4: EXPANDING AND CONSOLIDATING THE EMPIRE Kings, Kinsmen and Others: The Theory and Practice of Andean Allegiances, Susan Elizabeth Ramírez The Possibilities of Empire: Russian Sectarian Migration to South Caucasia and the Refashioning of Social Boundaries, Nicholas Breyfogle References About the Authors Authors Index Geographical Index Subject Index