This book provides a rich, cross-cultural foundation for a more enlightened understanding of migration and its role in the unfolding shape of global history. It juxtaposes the global and the regional in illuminating ways and offers an analysis of the migration crisis position today.

Migration History: Some Patterns Revisited -- Moving Europeans in the Globalizing World: Contemporary Migrations in a Historical-Comparative Perspective (1955-1994 v. 1870-1914) -- Africa and Global Patterns of Migration -- The Global Migration Crisis -- Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Globalisation -- Migrant Workers, Markets, and the Law -- Of Migration, Great Cities, and Markets: Global Systems of Development -- Uncertain Globalization: Refugee Movements in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- Travel, Migration, and Images of Social Life -- Global Movements, Global Walls: Responses to Migration, 1885-1925