Roman Fictions and Maghrebi Diasporas: Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Mobility

The pre-Roman peoples of the Mauretania Tingitana are unique insofar as they seem to have held onto their identities even as Roman habits and mores became popular. It has even been suggested that various tribes, such as the Baquates or Macinates, resisted Roman rule or acculturation. Others had a fundamentally different relationship with Romanness, encountering it not from within their own ancestral lands, but instead as immigrants scattered throughout the Empire. Their contributions to the diversity of the Roman world are well attested, but not the mechanisms by which they navigated their own socialization and enculturation in cultures foreign to them. With an emphasis on exploring the agency of these non-Roman peoples, various defining factors emerge – such as gender and pre-existing socio-economic status – that shaped the degree of success they found in navigating the complex social and economic environments of the Roman world.

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