ABSTRACT
In this and the following chapter, I examine ten migration crises drawn from six parts of the world. In this chapter, the cases drawn from Africa feature two well-known episodes of mass expulsion - that of the Ugandan Asians, a long established minority of migrant origin, and that of the Ghanaians in Nigeria, a migrant population of more recent origin. The cases drawn from the Middle East are a consequence of the Gulf crisis of 1990-91, and each features a mixture of long-established and more recent migrants. The cases taken from Asia present two contemporaneous episodes involving disputed citizenship; again they feature both long-established populations and more recent arrivals. For each case I outline the background to the presence of the migrant community and give an account of the circumstances of their mass exodus. I then reflect on the place of the mass exodus in the migration order and draw out some features for comparison with other cases - notably the migratory antecedents, and the issues of demography, socio-economic status and membership that bear on each migration upheaval.
