The Age of Migration

Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas and Mark J. Miller survey international migration from a global angle: the nature of migration flows, the reasons they happen, and their consequences for both the societies people leave and those they settle in. Chapters compare the major migration regions of the North and the South. The authors examine the part population movements play in forming ethnic minority groups, and how growing ethnic diversity affects economies, cultures and political institutions. Teaching features include maps, tables, boxed examples and further reading suggestions, and at least one later edition was thoroughly revised.

Terri E. Givens of the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin endorsed it as the main textbook in migration studies, one she has relied on for her own research and for her courses on the politics of immigration.