This edited volume includes 17 chapters about immigration to and across the United States and elsewhere within a historical context. The book is divided into two sections: The United States Context and Outside the United States. 

Included in the United States Context section is a chapter on the African American Great Migration from the south to the north and west, as well as a narrative within another chapter on the Indigenous Tribal Nations’ Trail of Tears where Tribes in the Southeast were forced to relocated to the west of the Mississippi because of the Federal Indian Removal…