CONTRIBUCIÓN DE LAS COLONIAS DE LA BÉTICA AL PROCESO EMIGRATORIO HISPANO HACIA LAS PROVINCIAS DEL IMPERIO (SIGLOS I-II D. C.).

The epigraphic documentation allows us to know the existence in imperial time of an intense geographic mobility carried out by people of Hispanic origin. The main objective of the present work is the collection and study of epigraphic information about migratory movements that originated in the Roman colonies of Betica and that they had as destination the non-Hispanic provinces of the Empire. The analysis of the causes of this mobility forms the core of this work and has allowed us to establish three large groups of emigrants. The first and most numerous is made up of the members of the army; the second by those individuals whose displacement was motivated by economic and labor causes; the third groups a heterogeneous group of inscriptions that do not allow to determine with certainty the causes that motivated the displacements of their protagonists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]