To fully understand these sources, which you should read before our first class on immigrants, you also have to read the material about the relevant groups in Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation. Without seeing the Romans’ wider beliefs about a group it is hard to understand reactions to them when they became Roman citizens in any numbers.

Bibliography:

All Roads Lead to Rome: Exploring Human Migration to the Eternal City through Biochemistry of Skeletons from Two Imperial-Era Cemeteries (1st-3rd c AD): this article may be of interest to the more scientifically minded of you.

Noy, David. 2000. Foreignors at Rome: Citizens and Strangers. Duckworth. Older, but very straightforward and wide-ranging.

Rutgers, L.V. 1994. “Roman Policy towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome during the First Century CE.” Classical Antiquity 13: 56-74.