Leaving Home in Hard Times: Flight and Expulsion in Medieval Maghreb
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https://doi.org/10.30827/meaharabe.v74.30919Keywords:
Medieval Maghreb, Mobility, Migrations, DeportationAbstract
War and armed conflict have been, and continue to be, one of the main causes of population mobility. Expulsions, deportations, exiles, destruction of cities and habitats have caused migration dynamics throughout history, and the medieval Maghreb is no exception.
This article aims to explore the narratives linked to these phenomena of forced mobility of individuals and populations in the medieval Maghreb. To this goal, a selection of texts from different periods has been made in order to obtain a diachronic overview of this process: from the first moments of the conquest up to the 10th century. The differences between the expulsion of rulers and episodes of deportation of population groups have been taken into account. The circumstances surrounding these episodes of escape (destinations, goods, companions) and the emotional aspects of some of the episodes are also analysed.
This study focuses on violent conflicts as a cause of the mobility of Maghrebi individuals and populations and also aims to contribute to explaining the perceptible changes and mutations in human geography during the medieval period.
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