ENDORSEMENTS:
This engagingly written and expansive book centers on the questions of why migration matters and why an understanding of human population movementsis important to an understanding of the world in which we live. Dianna Shandy, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Provost, Macalester College, United States.Key questions on migration - such as why are we challenged by the arrival of migrants in our country? Aren't there terrorists among migrants? Will migrants steal our jobs? - are answered in simple and accessible prose. Dr Benjamin Nickl, The University of Sydney, Australia. The book judiciously covers key debates that shaped contemporary scholarship on international migration including the multi-faceted contribution of immigrants, ill effects of the early European settlers on indigenous people, different types of migration, and myriad migrant identities in Australia, Canada, and the United States. NergisCanefe, Associate Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada.