ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on what migration history had contributed to one's understanding, and possibly the actual shaping, of global history. It discusses the role of the nation-state in determining patterns of migration. The book deals the global and the regional in illuminating ways. It highlights how the total past of migration patterns for one part of the world could be drawn on to delineate the complex configurations of global history. The book emphasises how recent events in the era of globalisation can have strong and distinctive local characteristic and how particular changes carry universal features that have to be recognised in global history. It explains a broader historical perspective on some of the ramifications. The book offers an analysis of the migration crisis position today and provides an appropriate conclusion to the range of issues.
