« Je vais et viens de Rome selon les occasions. » Migrations internes et mobilité circulaire des travailleurs ruraux (17e-18e siècles)

Abstract

The article focuses on rural migrants from Papal States in the 17th and 18th centuries. It aims to describe patterns of internal migration closely linked to circular mobility practices. The context of pre-unitary Italy is particularly interesting in the study of internal migration, since the political fragmentation of the peninsula is overlaid by the multiplicity of social and legal affiliations. In the first part, the article takes into consideration the social profiles and pathways of rural migrants, which include both agricultural works, often seasonal, and the use of "welfare" structures in Rome as specific features. Then, winegrowers will be examined more closely, in order to stress out the internal differentiation of the rural migrant population, but also to take into account the authorities' reaction towards these inhabitants, who are both mobile and yet a part of the urban community. In order to do so, the article relies on sources such as parish registers of the states of souls, processetti matrimoniali and archival records of roman hospices and hospitals.

Keywords

• migrations
• rural migrants
• seasonal labour
• urban population
• ways of dwelling
• households