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#AAH2026 Alejandro Quintana (Yale University), “Mobility Makes States: Ideology and Legibility in Roman Egypt” argues that human movement was a "structuring fact" of ancient society. He begins with the edict of Vibius Maximus as praefectus of Egypt in 104 concerning a census, enjoining all migrants to "return to their homes that they may perform the customary business of registration and may apply themselves to the cultivation of the land, as is their proper duty." https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Aegypti29_johnson.htm https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.lond;3;904 Further discussion of Roman attempts to address (and/or exploit the rhetoric of) tax flight by clamping down on migrants and their behaviors backfired in various ways, increasing flight, demographic collapse, and local rebellion.