ДРУГОСТТА И ПРОБЛЕМЪТ ЗА СВОБОДАТА НА ПРИДВИЖВАНЕ В КЛАСИЧЕСКА АТИНА
OTHERNESS AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IN CLASSICAL ATHENS

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the freedom of movement and its relation to migrations is among the essential aspects of the theme of migrations. Migration is just a small segment of the total mobility. People move for different reasons and they can be classified in different categories: tourists, immigrants, foreign workers, refugees, students, pilgrims… It is more important that this leads to the formation of a cosmopolitan, racially/ethnically and culturally mixed society against the background of intensive civilisational exchanges. However, these processes are also reflected in acute social conflicts and confrontation.Archaic societies did not elaborate the legal foundations of the freedom of movement, which presuppose an international community of states, based on the general recognition of the principles of territorial sovereignty and equality of independent states before the law. That was to become possible with the emergence of the modern European state system. The problem of the free movement of people and its relevance to migrations as a form of mobility in antiquity has many aspects. The present paper analyses the issue of identity, which is closely related to the issues of otherness and to the big theme of the control over mobility by generating a restrictive system vis-à-vis the alien and the foreigners through a precise model of inclusion in and exclusion from the political and social community.

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