This collective volume analyzes the link between European expansion and international migration. First the book surveys long distance migration and attempts to establish the relative quantitative volume of various movements. Secondly, attention is paid to demographic, socio-economic and cultural differences which existed and still exist between international migrants from Europe, Africa and Asia. In the third and last section, a balance sheet of various migration movements is drawn up, attempting to predict the future of intercontinental migration now that Europe has virtually dissolved its empires.